A tweet from @9NewsAUS on 10 August 2014 (which included this snapshot) alerted the twitterverse to the fact that the Liberal Party of Australia had finally accepted that Tony Abbott the politician is a serial liar and, that the party had decided to revel in this situation by redirecting to examples of these lies via IP 96.45.82.239:
Clicking on this web address one is confronted with revolving screen:
Checking with Whois.com on 10 August 2014 confirmed this redirection website was not a hack:
Domain Name: abbottlies.com.au
Last Modified: 13-May-2014 07:17:16 UTC
Registrar ID: Melbourne IT
Registrar Name: Melbourne IT
Status: ok
Registrant: Liberal Party of Australia
Registrant ID: ABN 15217882958
Eligibility Type: Other
Registrant Contact ID: Z139995949925914
Registrant Contact Name: dontchange
Registrant Contact Email: Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs
Tech Contact ID: Z139995949925913
Tech Contact Name: Wys Tech
Tech Contact Email: Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs
Name Server: ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
Name Server: ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com
Name Server: ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com
However, the tactic appears to have backfired because on 11 August a similar hosted website address http://abbottslies.com.au displays this home page, copyrighted on behalf of the Australian Labour Party on or around 4 August this year:
Obviously the Liberal Party didn't have a forward thinker in the office the day it decided to only purchase www.abbottlies.com.au - it should have also brought up abbottlies.com, .net, .org and of course created http://abbottslies.com.au when it had the chance.
A PC can sometimes develop a bad case of internet hiccups if users go to both the Liberal and Labor websites and then repeat the process without clearing the browser cache. :-)
Last Modified: 13-May-2014 07:17:16 UTC
Registrar ID: Melbourne IT
Registrar Name: Melbourne IT
Status: ok
Registrant: Liberal Party of Australia
Registrant ID: ABN 15217882958
Eligibility Type: Other
Registrant Contact ID: Z139995949925914
Registrant Contact Name: dontchange
Registrant Contact Email: Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs
Tech Contact ID: Z139995949925913
Tech Contact Name: Wys Tech
Tech Contact Email: Visit whois.ausregistry.com.au for Web based WhoIs
Name Server: ns1.dnsmadeeasy.com
Name Server: ns2.dnsmadeeasy.com
Name Server: ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com
However, the tactic appears to have backfired because on 11 August a similar hosted website address http://abbottslies.com.au displays this home page, copyrighted on behalf of the Australian Labour Party on or around 4 August this year:
Obviously the Liberal Party didn't have a forward thinker in the office the day it decided to only purchase www.abbottlies.com.au - it should have also brought up abbottlies.com, .net, .org and of course created http://abbottslies.com.au when it had the chance.
A PC can sometimes develop a bad case of internet hiccups if users go to both the Liberal and Labor websites and then repeat the process without clearing the browser cache. :-)
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