This is for the many people who have tried to get to my web site and been re-directed to either web1000 home page, a pay-for-surveys site or more disturbingly, lately it's been a porn site (to the persons who have taken the time to write to me with your abusive e-mail (you know who you are), I only ask you to do me the courtesy to also take the time to read this entire message). Well at last I finally have an answer to why this occurs (only taken 2 1/2 years of nagging and a change of company ownership!!)
Quote:
From Web1000:
"We actually do make money directly. We do this on things like 404 error traffic and some non-United States traffic that many advertisers would not purchase anyhow (like Korean and Chinese traffic), which we turn into 404 traffic. You will notice that 404 traffic is directed to advertisers. Since our bandwidth is already paid for, even this small amount of traffic makes us a profit. (You would be surprised at how many people type in site names like "something.web1000.com" It's just like type in traffic to a primary domain name . . . and the quality of this type-in 404 traffic is quite good)."
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Whilst I still don't see how this makes much sense (surely this restricts their customers to being from and for the US only, a rather limited view considering the Internet is a global network). The key words in their statement are "non-US traffic" and "[re]directed to advertisers". Guess they're not too fussed who the "advertiser" is or what they're selling (too bad if I'd created a children's web site when they changed their policy!)
The main thing is at least now I know why some ppl are getting re-directly, and can only offer my appologies to anyone who found where they got re-directed to offensive, it was not my doing and out of my control to change.
Kind regards all,
- Wolfie
(wizardry8 AT mail.com)