-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 01/06/09 20:52, Christopher Swift wrote: > <snip /> >> Lets not jump ahead of ourselves here. I highly doubt that either ASUS >> nor Microsoft are officially behind this campaign. Really guys do a >> whois on the domain name, it is registered by GoDaddy.com for crying out >> loud! In all fairness both teams have a better advertising team than >> what this website has came to be. The entire website is just one image >> and an embedded Flowplayer to play the video! Honestly wouldn't they use >> something like Silverlight? Perhaps something like the Hyper-Video part >> of Silverlight would be a real plus when mentioning XP direct to the MS >> site, when mentioning the eee, direct to ASUS' site. There isn't even a >> single link to asus.com nor microsoft.com neither. In short it looks >> like you guys have been ultimately trolled. > > Are you referring to the same article that started this thread? It links > to here: > http://www.osnews.com/story/21589/Asus_Microsoft_Launch_Anti-Linux_Netbook_Campaign > > Looks like a MS/Asus add to me. > > Al > > Yes I am referring to that article and many others on the same topic :-). There is just one page on entire ASUS web-range that links to that page over at asus.co.uk and not on any other counterparts. If you ask me it was a sys-admin who was having a bit of fun and hoped not to be caught.
First off I'll point out the evidence that we have piece-by-piece and I don't mean to be patronising nor offensive as I do this. Firstly visit asus.co.uk, it automatically redirects to uk.asus.com. Now visit the 1008HA's page on what looks like the officially endorsed asus page for the UK (i.e. utilising the uk.asus.com subdomain). It can be found here: http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=164&l3=0&l4=0&model=2912&modelmenu=1 whereas somehow there is an asus.co.uk page however their index page redirects to uk.asus.com, the page that I am referring to is here: http://www.asus.co.uk/eeepc/1008HA/features.html as you can see there is a reference to this "joke" marketing site ;-). OK there is an official domain pointing to the marketing campaign on one of their product's pages, well I'll be damned if you can find it on a single other ASUS page, check out this page for example: http://www.asus.co.uk/eeepc/1000HE/ there is no mention of itsbetterwithwindows.com ;-). Now lets take a look at the whois for asus.com: Domain Name: ASUS.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com Name Server: DNS3.ASUS.COM Name Server: DNS7.ASUS.COM Status: clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 29-mar-2007 Creation Date: 25-oct-1995 Expiration Date: 24-oct-2011 Registrant: Asus Computer International 800 Corporate Way Fremont, CA 94539 US Administrative Contact, Technical Contact: Yao, Charles charles_...@asus.com Asus Computer International 800 Corporate Way Fremont, CA 94539 US As you can see ASUS have really put out some details for them to be able to be contacted and even run their own DNS server for the domain, now lets look at the itsbetterwithwindows.com whois shall we? Domain Name: ITSBETTERWITHWINDOWS.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com Name Server: NS61.DOMAINCONTROL.COM Name Server: NS62.DOMAINCONTROL.COM Status: clientDeleteProhibited Status: clientRenewProhibited Status: clientTransferProhibited Status: clientUpdateProhibited Updated Date: 05-dec-2008 Creation Date: 05-dec-2008 Expiration Date: 05-dec-2009 Registrant: Michael Sharp 12932 SE Kent-Kangley Rd. Box 238 Kent, Washington 98030 United States I'm sorry for the huge email however it can be seen that this questionable website uses questionable contact info, i.e. it is not even in the same state as the ASUS domain registree and the contact email is a hohtmail account using a consumer level hosting account over at GoDaddy.com :). For clarity the email is rdcpro at [good old] hotmail dot com. Now try and convince me that ASUS or Microsoft are truly behind this campaign. - -- Christopher Swift http://launchpad.net/~chris PGP Key: 0x10A0B8E <ch...@chrisswift.eu> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkokN/sACgkQYckxdhCgq44j3wCfWY8rCz4yYS/144YXNd2rIum7 faMAn0o9edgCuyW4Vt6gBLF3CWflj3sH =yAKC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
