OT: Why are some URLs 'diverted'?

This is an example of something that has often puzzled me: why
visiting one URL takes me to an apparently totally unrelated address.
For example http://www.firefoxtweaks.com/ takes me to
http://www.matt-darby.com/go.php?id=About

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

Terry Pinnell wrote:
> This is an example of something that has often puzzled me: why
> visiting one URL takes me to an apparently totally unrelated
> address. For example http://www.firefoxtweaks.com/ takes me to
> http://www.matt-darby.com/go.php?id=About

Usually because the domain name you go to has no hosting of its own and
the pages are elsewhere, such as an ISP's free webspace.

Ivor

> This is an example of something that has often puzzled me: why
> visiting one URL takes me to an apparently totally unrelated address.

Perhaps he owns the other domain, and just redirects it to where he has
pages hosted - I do similar with...

www.phoenixbbs.co.uk
www.coreutilities.co.uk
www.unfaithfulbastard.co.uk
www.unfaithfulbitch.co.uk

....amongst others

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"Colin Wilson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > This is an example of something that has often puzzled me: why
> > visiting one URL takes me to an apparently totally unrelated address.
>
> Perhaps he owns the other domain, and just redirects it to where he has
> pages hosted - I do similar with...
>
> www.phoenixbbs.co.uk
> www.coreutilities.co.uk
> www.unfaithfulbastard.co.uk
> www.unfaithfulbitch.co.uk
>
> ...amongst others
>
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I like the unfaithful domains colin.

> I like the unfaithful domains colin.

I bought them while drunk one night, and the idea was to have them as a
name-and-shame, but after checking out the legal site c/o uk.legal it
might have landed me in a *lot* of doodoo if someone got assaulted etc
for appearing on the site.

I could be held personally liable, despite it not being me making the
posts - mainly because i`d be easier to find / sue :-/

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Colin Wilson <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> I like the unfaithful domains colin.
>
>I bought them while drunk one night, and the idea was to have them as a
>name-and-shame, but after checking out the legal site c/o uk.legal it
>might have landed me in a *lot* of doodoo if someone got assaulted etc
>for appearing on the site.
>
>I could be held personally liable, despite it not being me making the
>posts - mainly because i`d be easier to find / sue :-/

Thanks all.

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