Captain Tumor Man hacked?

[Brad Kane]

Has the captaintumorman.com site been hacked, or perhaps payments lapsed and the site was reacquired? None of Joe's posts are there and it appears to be a Chinese website.

After already losing the database to Wine Therapy, this would be terrible news if it hasn't been saved.

 

[Steve Edmunds]

you sure it's not the St Louis Cardinals?

 

[slaton]

I also noticed awhile back that the domain registration had apparently lapsed.

 

[MLipton]

Weird, Brad. The site's been registered through GoDaddy by ZeroG Corporation, a Japanese corporation based in Yokohama (http://www.zerog.co.jp). The text you see is written in Kanji (Japanese written in Chinese characters) and basically says "this space for rent". The home page for ZeroG Corporation says "this page not loaded" so everything looks pretty much defunct.

Mark Lipton

 

[MLipton]

Courtesy of the fine folk at archive.org, you can see the old site:

Nov. 2011 snapshot

Mark Lipton

 

[Chris Coad]

That's what happens when you stop paying the bills. Gets taken over by Asian pet food companies.

As someone who has a job requiring him to check old links in old catalogues, this is a very familiar story.

 

[Brad Kane]

Thanks for the link, Mark. It's disappointing that the domain was lost, though.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

It's been gone a long time, Brad. (I'm not Chris Coad but I know what link rot is.)