I saw the first link here, http://drupal.org/node/56757#comment-107614

I followed the link and thought i was spam.

But Google search shows there are a total of 222 links to www.drupalecommerce.com all over d.o.

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozill...

Archive.org shows that www.drupalecommerce.com used to be a Drupal site...

http://web.archive.org/web/20061004012422/http://drupalecommerce.com/

It looks like the DNS has expired and now being run by http://www.dotster.com.

I'm not sure what to think about this. When drupalec posted these comments, there was related content on the site... but the majority of posts by edrupalec and drupalec are just links to www.drupalecommerce.com. If anyone linked to a site like www.drupalecommerce.com now, it would be considered spam.

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gerhard killesreiter’s picture

gerhard killesreiter commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Doesn't matter much, we add rel=nofollow to all links anyway.

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active

the only one who benefits from rel=nofollow are the searcg engines, since their index is kept more accurately. our users still have to endure useless reading and trips to drupalecommerce.com.

gerhard killesreiter’s picture

gerhard killesreiter commented

Moshe: Wha do you want to do? Check and fix all broken links on d.o? Nobody has that much time.

kreynen’s picture

kreynen commented

Does anyone know the story behind what happened to www.drupalecommerce.com? I'd be willing to post follow ups to the 222 posts that don't already say that www.drupalecommerce.com is gone like this one...

http://drupal.org/node/62052

I wouldn't care about this if I hadn't spent a few minutes clicking around on the spam site before I realized there was nothing there. Dotster makes it less than obvious that this is a parked domain.

Gurpartap Singh’s picture

Gurpartap Singh commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

This website is just one of hundreds of domains we'll keep facing, with such issues. Looks like this won't work out.