I see a lot of people posting/sharing stuff from “WithKashmir”…all good but understand what is happening when you do it.
Yesterday, someone on twitter claimed that withkashmir. com is a site that was IP owned by someone sitting in Rawalpindi. The owner of withkashmir. org claimed that his site is “.org” and not “.com” and .org is hosted in Kashmir. So it was a smear campaign against the site.
If one checks online…it is indeed true “.org” is registered in Kashmir. And “.com” is banned in India.
The person who runs “withkashmir. org” [again having a twitter verified account ] claimed that “.org’ and “.com” are different.
So, it seems like a smear campaign.
But, chor ki dadi may tinka.
If one now looks up the whois info…even “.com” is now showing that it was registered in Kashmir.
So what is happening?
Internet Proxy wars.
Some old pages on the “.org” website still asks readers to write to them on “write@withkashmir. com”
A bit of extra search on crawler sites (which do not update as fast as most other whois site) shows that around 7 months ago withkashmir. com started in Rawalpindi n Pakistan.
And six months ago it switched to “withkashmir. org” was Kashmir address. A handover will all tracks covered.
But, crime always leads a trail.
A simple search shows that withkashmir. org used to be withkashmir. com and it did indeed start in Rawalpindi.
The claim from owner that the site has nothing to do with Rawalpindi |
The owner showing the .com is having Indian Address |
the old new sight still linking to “.com” site. |
The Wayback Marchine showing the content of .com site and .org site is same. |
.org stated 6 months ago |
after the expose…the “updated” address of .com site also showing Kashmir address |
The crawler sites…that didn’t catch up with the new address change still showing Rawalpindi Address. The Linkedin profile of owner showing that he ran .com site |
Update Late 2018: The FB page of the website deleted once FB began showing the Admin/Owner country of FB pages as public info. For obvious reasons.