Bad/hijacked DNS?

[MaulingMonkey]

http://voxeljs.com/ appears to be hosting content with unrelated spam links, and breaks "view source on github" links. For example:

Current voxeljs.com:

<p>Here is a presentation from May 2013 that covers all the exciting stuff that happened in voxel.js land up <a href="http://www.betking88.online">judi bola online</a> to that point.</p>

gh-pages branch version doesn't contain the link to betking:

<p>Here is a presentation from May 2013 that covers all the exciting stuff that happened in voxel.js land up to that point.</p>

Looking at the domain records, it has a single A record pointing at 198.54.116.189, which doesn't match any of github's current servers - https://help.github.com/en/articles/setting-up-an-apex-domain lists these IP addresses:

185.199.108.153
185.199.109.153
185.199.110.153
185.199.111.153

[joedf]

I've noticed this too. I thought I was crazy at first. All casino or gambling websites...

https://www.playwinn.online/
http://www.betking88.online/
http://www.judibola123.info/
https://judibola777.net/

All subtlety inserted as inline links within the paragraphs...
This is, without doubt, malicious behaviour.

[max-mapper]

Whoa crazy, thanks for finding. Pretty sure 198.54.116.189 is the old gh-pages DNS. I'll update it

[max-mapper]

Ah crap the domain expired last year. I don't control it anymore. I'll unpublish the site

[joedf]

Woaw. Maybe just use the default Github subdomain? 👍

[biels]

Noticed the same:

[joedf]

New site available here: http://voxel.github.io/voxeljs-site/
Close issue?

[harry-wood]

Ah crap the domain expired last year. I don't control it anymore. I'll unpublish the site

OK so voxeljs.com is lost, and now operated by some evil spamming hijackers. That really sucks :-( I didn't know spammers did that actually. Of course I've seen expired domains getting replaced by crappy spamdexing websites many times. Always sad to see, but here they've replaced it with a fake replica of the original site. Gah! Presumably pursuing copyright or trademark infringement claims wouldn't get very fair. The domain is lost so...

New site available here: http://voxel.github.io/voxeljs-site/

Well is that the canonical URL you want to promote? If not, then... Step 1 is register a different domain.

Close issue?

...well it raises a few other actions right? Any links to the lost domain should be removed to try to get google indexing the new site and de-indexing the spammy one. At the moment the spammers are winning, but maybe it wouldn't take too much to win the ranks back at a new location.

• Fix links on the website itself. index.html#L240 and others.
• Fix top link on https://github.com/voxel
• Fix examples link in https://gist.github.com/maxogden/5147486
• Fix link on https://twitter.com/voxeljs
• Fix link on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khWOLOL2SzA or ask Kyle Robinson Young ( @shama ?) to do so
• Reach out to anyone else with prominent old links, and tell them to update.
• Put a note on the website about not linking to the old domain.

Also...

• Reply to people in the issues here who are confused about the state of the website (Also ideally people edit their comments to not link the old domain even in these discussions)
• Re-host other subdomain things such as creator.voxeljs.com
• Is voxelbuilder.com still OK? I can't actually tell for sure, but seems suspicious that it immediately talks about "Casino Games". Suffered the same fate??