The Strange Knockon Effect Of Changing Domains

As I’ve mentioned a few times in the past few weeks and months, we’re in the process of switching over from blacknight.ie to blacknight.com.
I switched this blog over to the .com a couple of weeks ago and didn’t think anymore about it until just now.
Normally I check the comment spam filter every couple of days to see if any legitimate comments have been blocked and end up dumping several thousand junk comments.
For the last few days it’s been completely empty!
I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, but I suspect that the spammers are confused by the redirects or something… I guess they’ll find the new location for the comment form fairly soon, but if they don’t I won’t complain!
Of course I might have just broken the blog comments … If you can’t post a comment please let me know (michele@blacknight.com)!

About the Author: Michele Neylon

Known for his outspoken opinions on technology and the Internet, Michele Neylon is the award winning author of several blogs and co-host of the Technology.ie podcast. A thought leader in the Internet community, Neylon is active within ICANN and an expert on policy, security, domains, ICANN, Nominet and Internet Governance. You can stalk him on various social media networks including Twitter and Instagram

2 Comments

elly parker November 30, 2007 at 14:55

comments seem to be working OK now.
Michele Neylon November 30, 2007 at 15:14

It seems I missed a hardcoded variable in one of the config files 🙁