[Discussion] we are measuring cloned site at the wrong time and calling it noise
we are measuring cloned site at the wrong time and calling it noise. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
Nearly paid a cloned storefront. Caught it because one character in the domain was wrong and I paste rather than type.
The directory deliberately separates "we have nothing on this name" from "this went badly". Collapsing the two is how boards like this generate false certainty.
Ask for the batch-specific certificate before payment. Any operation with a quality system behind it can produce one; the request costs you nothing and it filters hard.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Domain age, registrar and certificate issuance date are all public and take about a minute to check. A site claiming years of history on a months-old domain is the cheapest signal available.
Left up. It carries dates, a domain and a document trail, which is what a report on this board looks like.
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Same. A batch-specific document requested before payment costs nothing and filters an enormous amount.
Agreed on the no-names rule. It protects the board and it protects people who turn out to be wrong.
a cloned storefront copies the design, never the documentation
Correcting my own post: the payment date was the 14th, not the 4th. The gap is smaller than I made it sound.
Not convinced. A payment window that closed is a payment window, not evidence of intent.
Never name an individual. The sidebar rule exists because the cost of being wrong falls on a person and the benefit of being right falls on nobody in particular.
a shop that will only talk off-platform has told you something
Correction: that domain is one character different from the one you posted, which is rather the point of this thread.
Is this a shop, a group buy, or an individual reseller? They fail in different ways.
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