Omnimaga
Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on September 08, 2012, 07:14:01 pm
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In case some people are still unaware that Omni switched from OmniURL to OURL a few months ago, do not click any link leading to omniurl.tk anymore! Omnimaga has discontinued the omniurl.tk domain name to replace it with ourl.ca a few months ago. The old OmniURL domain name has since been squatted and now redirect to viruses.
Omnimaga has been using ourl.ca instead as URL shorterner, but the admins haven't removed the Twitterfeed for omniurl.tk yet. As a result, Facebook news notifications occasionally notifies you of news coming from the latter URL, putting users at risk. All new updates, Twitter and Facebook will use OURL.
Thanks for understanding and hopefully no one's computer got harmed by that domain name squatting. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0)
Four and half a year ago, a similar incident occured to our previous site URL, omnimaga.dyndns.org, used from October 2005 to October 2006. It remained active afterward, to avoid breaking old links, but was hacked in Early January 2008 to be redirected to Ticalc's IRC instructions page, then the Mudkip page on Wikipedia, to finally start fowarding to nvm2u. As of today it still redirects there (quite ironic considering that DynDNS service now costs money)
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Eeems should had fixed this already as soon I PM'd him about it with my instructions to fix it. Also dat omniurl.tk censor thing. Lol.
EDIT: Lol found hax, edited the above post with it :P
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Good to hear. I think there are still omniurl.tk links all over the web though by now so hopefully people be careful.
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*omniurl.tk
Tip: use omniurl[b][/b].tk :P
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Stupid word filter can be annoying <.<
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How did a virus get there?
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The domain likely expired (.tk messes up anyway, so that's why we bought ourl.ca (thanks to my canadian citizenship :P)), so it redirects to their parking page.
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Ooh, you're a Canadian too? Isn't it awesome?
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Canadians...:P You get your own website!?
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There's a domain for every country :P ie .us in the US and .fr in France.
Regarding the topic..wow. I'm hoping it's caught by most if not all the large antivirus programs out there.
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There's a domain for every country :P ie .us in the US and .fr in France
Well I knew that :P, but I didn't know that omnimaga had a domain that originated in Canada. And what exactly did this virus do?
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I hope no one's actually clicked the download link to test, but it's definitely a scam site. Who knows.
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Well, Omnimaga actually originated in Québec, Canada, so yeah.
Alsoo woohoo another Canadian :3
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Wow, someone makes viruses that spread through omnimaga D:
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There's a domain for every country :P ie .us in the US and .fr in France
Well I knew that :P, but I didn't know that omnimaga what domains in Canada. And what exactly did this virus do?
I don't know since Avast blocks the connection immediately.
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Red text in news means fake, right?
You almost got me guys./me clicks on a omniurl link
Lol, j/k.
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fake is brownish or something, not red.
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^ That. This isn't fake :/
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Yeah, fake news is more brownish. Red, on the other hand, universally means warning. We wanted to warn people that the Facebook page, as of yesterday, was still spitting out omniurl.tk links, which now redirects to a parking page full of weird stuff, which is a verifiable claim.
As for the virus claim, DJ_O's antivirus went haywire when he clicked those links, so it probably means there's a virus there, which made him write this news so nobody would be fooled.
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Is there a way we could reclaim the omniurl.tk domain?
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Is there a way we could reclaim the ourl.ca domain?
Yes. If you guys have a Namecheap account I can share it to you, I think.
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I meant omniurl. Blame the censor :P
I was asking if we could reclaim it somehow, so at least the links that've been posted won't lead to scams.
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fake is brownish or something, not red.
I know. I was just kidding.
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Do we have a bot or script to go through the past posts to remove the offending links?
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On the forums, omni url is censored to ourl.ca. On Facebook, admins still need to remove them manually one by one, though. As for IRC logs, they went offline months ago so in short terms I guess that won't matter for them.
Nice to see you again by the way :D
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Aren't tk domains free anyway? I use that to shorten urls sometimes.
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They're free, but they're instable and you must keep a number of views a month or else they'll expire.
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Aren't tk domains free anyway? I use that to shorten urls sometimes.
It depends. If I remember, there are paid ones. Free ones had pop ups if I remember
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dot.tk domains? :banghead: never
some years ago, when I started programming websites, I did a online code generator tool for a social network (using .tk domain)
the site has grown a lot in a short time, received hundreds of visits per day, but one day without explanation dot.tk team suspended the site domain and placed there a page of advertising
after 2/3 weeks, I managed to retrieve the domain, but lost many visitors...
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That stinks! D: but good to know to never use dot.tk
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dot.tk domains? :banghead: never
some years ago, when I started programming websites, I did a online code generator tool for a social network (using .tk domain)
the site has grown a lot in a short time, received hundreds of visits per day, but one day without explanation dot.tk team suspended the site domain and placed there a page of advertising
after 2/3 weeks, I managed to retrieve the domain, but lost many visitors...
Yeah they did that eveyr month with Omniurl. It was annoying.
Also half of the time dot.tk is slow, so if people don't know your actual URL, they can't access your site.