[New-imc] beach cities

[Alan Bushnell]

I highly doubt that there will ever be an application to New IMC from
"Beach Cities IMC" to join the network.  The whois record for
"beachcitiesimc dot org" lists a contact address (101 Palos Verdes Drive
East) that google finds in various places associated with kobehq dot
com, an extreme right wing website.  This indicates to me that there
will be no serious attempt to join the network but instead is an attempt
to discredit and disrupt Indymedia by associating extreme right wing
views with it to the casual web surfer.

One way that they will do this is trying to latch onto Indymedia's high
google ranking by getting that domain associated with searches into the
rest of the network.  I suggest all sites (LA, NYC, this mailing list
archive) remove links to that domain as that is how google's search
ranking works.  We may also consider having any referrer traffic from
that domain include a disclaimer that "Beach Cities IMC" is not
associated with our network.  I suppose it would be at this point that
hierarchical organizations would file a trademark infringement lawsuit.

Their link to foxnews.com in their left sidebar was a nice touch I
thought.

alan

whois information:

Beach Cities IMC (AVGFIVLLXD)
   101 Palos Verdes Drive East
   Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90275
   US

   Domain Name: BEACHCITIESIMC.ORG

   Administrative Contact:
      IMC, Beach Cities  (35828510P)		beachcitiesimc at yahoo.com
      400 Silver Spur Road
      Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90275
      US
      xxx-xxx-xxxx
   Technical Contact:
      Network Solutions, Inc. 
(HOST-ORG)		customerservice at networksolutions.com
      21355 Ridgetop Circle
      Dulles, VA 20166
      US
      1-888-642-9675 fax: 123 123 1234

   Record expires on 25-Aug-2004.
   Record created on 25-Aug-2003.
   Database last updated on 30-Aug-2003 11:35:17 EDT.


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