Where did the music go?

September 3, 2005 6:23 PM

The moderated mp3 portal site - mp3megamart.com (Stairway to Heaven) suddenly became a porn site a few days ago. Anyone know what's going on?
posted by davebush to computers & internet (4 comments total)

The site was originally hosted in New Orleans, LA as per the whois records. I'm guessing the host's DNS servers were messed up and that's why the site is currently pointing to a wrong domain name.
posted by riffola at 6:40 PM on September 3, 2005

Although the domain contact email address indicates something shady. Hmm.
posted by riffola at 6:41 PM on September 3, 2005

I don't have a definitive answer, but I noticed they're hosted with DirectNIC in New Orleans. I bet there's a lot of room for screwups around there right now, whether accidental or via people trying to take advantage of the confusion.
posted by mendel at 6:45 PM on September 3, 2005

DirectNIC has had some problems, to put it mildly. You can read about their adventures here
posted by Serena at 7:08 PM on September 3, 2005