Where-oh-wherey Is David Airey?
A few people have sent me emails, asking if I knew what had happened to David Airey’s blog. His site went down about a week ago now, and then started forwarding to Bebu.net (whatever that is). Then yesterday the domain failed completely, and today it’s parked at Sedo.
To be honest I could only come up with two possible answers. Either David had enjoyed his holiday so much that he’d decided to stop blogging completely, or somebody had managed to gain control of his domain in his absence (tougher than it sounds to achieve).
Then I checked my feed reader (David’s blog has been there since I wrote my first blog post). I notice a post titled ‘David Airey.com hacked‘ which took me (lo and behold) to his blog - on the .co.uk version of the domain! Here’s what he says there:
On the day I left [on vacation], a hacker logged into my webhost support site and asked for the details to transfer the www.davidairey.com domain.
Ordinarily, this wouldn’t have allowed them to steal my domain, but they must also have had access to my Gmail account, from where they could verify the transfer. The passwords were different, and it’s one of those things I’d love to know how it was done.
At present, I’m using www.davidairey.co.uk for my website, and will continue to do so whilst I initiate court proceedings.
In the meantime, please bear with me as there are many internal site links that lead to the old .com address, and almost all my blog post images are unavailable. I’m working on it, and hope to have everything back to how it was in the very near future.
So… That clears that one up! 
Pop along to his blog in it’s (hopefully) temporary new home, and let him know you’ve tracked him down! All the best to you David - have a great Christmas and New Year, and try not to let the domain situation get you down during the festivites!
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That’s very kind of you Paul!
It was a big surprise, no doubt, but I’ve not given up hope that I can turn the situation around. The well-wishes left on my latest blog post are extremely heartening!
Thanks for spreading the word buddy. I have my work cut out to restore all my blog images, but I hope you have a great Christmas too. I will be.
I can’t belive it! It’s just so wrong. Thanks Paul for letting me know. And David I wish you all the luck in the world getting it sorted, have a good christmas.
Toni
Thank you Toni. I appreciate it.
No problem David and Toni - I’ve been there and done it all with domain hijackers, so I can totally sympathise!
That totally sucks, my wife’s site got hacked but I managed to catch it on time. I wonder what it takes to restore the site if that were to happen?
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Just found David’s blog has recovered now,
I know this is an old post, but I found THIS blog by actually doing a search for Dave Airey. Weird how that works out. I’ll be following this blog now as well because of the great posts!