In the 24 hours since al-Hesbah was "suspended", we have seen the page that is displayed changed, and control of the domains and server space restored to the administrator(s) of the site.
To review the situation as we understand it, there are eight domain names that continue to service this site (there used to be a couple of more).
All currently point to the same space, but the domain names are not all handled the same.
alhesbah.org, al-hesbah.org, alhesbah.com, freealhesbah.org, myalhesbah.org and alhesbah.info all point to http://star.cpmax.net/suspended.page/. This is what their "suspended.page" currently looks like:
Note that to the best of our knowledge cpmax.net *is* al-Hesbah - they host the site themselves under that name and have for quite some time.
al-hesbah.net and al-hesbah.com, on the other hand, display a slightly different page, and it is not called 'suspended.page':
It remains to be seen whether this just sloth on the part of the admin, or if the intent is to bring al-Hesbah back up on these latter two domains.
Some additional notes:
This would not be the first time al-Hesbah has made a show of suspending itself. See:
internet-haganah.com/harchives/005528.html
For those of you just tuning in, you will find discussion of the recent history of al-Hesbah in all its weirdness here:
internet-haganah.com/harchives/005565.html
And for an idea of the geographic distribution of the readership of al-Hesbah see this:
internet-haganah.com/harchives/005497.html
Posted on 16 August 2007 @ 11:03