Information.com

[Georged]

Guys, let me share info about Hostgator.
My addon domains which I`ve deleted from Hostgator are redirecting to information.com. Of course without warning me about that. So here is my conversation with live support of Hostgator.

(8:37:21 PM) Benjamin Da: has entered the chat.(8:37:22 PM) Benjamin Da: Hello, welcome to Hostgator Live Chat.(8:37:25 PM) Benjamin Da: How may I assist you today?(8:37:35 PM) Heorhii: hi(8:37:50 PM) Heorhii: I have added today addon domain and then deleted it(8:38:22 PM) Heorhii: but now it redirect my website to information.com(8:39:34 PM) Heorhii: Benjamin?(8:39:58 PM) Benjamin Da: YEs, Heorhi.(8:40:18 PM) Benjamin Da: So you deleted the addon domain, and now it's directing to a searchportal?(8:40:30 PM) Heorhii: yes(8:40:37 PM) Heorhii: *****.com(8:41:13 PM) Heorhii: and also i deleted *****.com(8:41:17 PM) Heorhii: the same thing(8:41:35 PM) Benjamin Da: OK, where do you want the deleted addon domains to go?(8:44:05 PM) Heorhii: to sedoparking. I`ve already changed nameservers to sedo.(8:44:29 PM) Benjamin Da: Well, it will take 24-48 hours for nameserver changes to propogate.(8:44:34 PM) Benjamin Da: So you will have to wait.(8:45:45 PM) Benjamin Da: Is there anything else I can help you with today?(8:46:44 PM) Heorhii: but why they are redirect to informmation?(8:46:48 PM) Heorhii: information.com(8:47:20 PM) Benjamin Da: Because when you delete an addon domain there's no place for it to go, and it gets redirected to a search portal.(8:48:19 PM) Heorhii: )))))and you make money on that. On my traffic.....(8:49:11 PM) Benjamin Da: Actually, the money for that is set up to go to charity.(8:50:00 PM) Heorhii: of course!!! ok. Thanks for all your answers!(8:50:05 PM) Benjamin Da: You're welcome!(8:50:08 PM) Benjamin Da: Thank you for using HostGator Live Chat.

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May be it will be useful for somebody.

Be honest I do not think that this is honest.

What do you guys think?

[copper]

So, you rather get your traffics wasted benefiting no one?

[Georged]

So, you rather get your traffics wasted benefiting no one?

Rather at least they will share it 50/50 with me.

[Acro]

Be glad they don't make money from the CO2 you exhale.

[denny007]

They have probably this as DEFAULT, each hoster must gets lots of "lost" traffic, it would actually require lots of detective work from them to detect where from and why is this traffic comming. Anyway in this age DNS propagate worldide in few minutes except some crappy ISP's

[Onward]

Hostgator makes cash on your 404's too....unless you call them on it.

[denny007]

Hostgator makes cash on your 404's too....unless you call them on it.

I think you can set 404 in Cpanel for every domain, but sure to make it default is dirty trick. But Hostgator is joke anyway, so no surprise here.

[Focus]

God forbid anyone else makes money...lol like that makes them much money anyways lol

[copper]

Hostgator makes cash on your 404's too....unless you call them on it.

You don't need to call them on it.
All you have to do is create "404 redirect".

1. create file named "404.shtml" and put it on your default folder, usually "public_html".
2. put "Errordocument 404 /404.shtml" in the .htaccess file without quote.

code for 404.shtml below...
Well, I would like to show you 404 redirect code here, but, code tag do not seem to work for some reason.

[DomainMagnate]

Is it really going to charity? I wonder if anyone has reliable info on this.

[Banned: democrat]

well they can't say its going somewhere it's not but then again... its a corporation and anyone can lie then

[Gerry]

Seeing that this information is public, I have taken the liberties of posting this on another forum with its own issues with hostgator:

< link removed>

[rebirth]

They're not lying. Hostgator is the most honest webhosting in the world!

0.1% go to charity.

[VanguardDomain]

Charity seems like a reasonable way to go. If they actually do it.
Just feel good that you are inadvertantly assisting the needy.

Neil

[stewmath]

it goes to what they call the Executive Bonus Charity

[Arrogance]

Get them to send a receipt, then write it off on your taxes

[dominator]

My addon domains which I`ve deleted from Hostgator are redirecting to information.com.

you have several options:

A, do not delete them (add them again)
just point them to an empty page or directory

B, change name servers
and they will not be able to do it anymore

if you use their name servers and delete the domains, it is actually
lame delegation