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| » 05 June 2009 |
| Air France Flight Domain Name Registration Controversy |
| In the middle of this week's ongoing investigation of the Air France flight 447 tragedy, people are abuzz in regards to an strange yet remarkable domain name registration made about two years ago; a certain flight447.com currently exists in the web, and talks of coincidence, the supernatural, or foul play are currently being entertained by netizens across cyberspace. The mystery of the missing Air France flight that vanished this week became even more profound and uncanny after news reports emerged on Wednesday that a prior Air France flight headed to Paris from Buenos Aires was the objective of a bomb threat a few days earlier. The plane was examined, given a clean bill of health, and arrived at its Parisian destination without any further difficulties. Today, it has surfaced that a person has had a domain registered for the vanished aircraft's flight number way back on September 30, 2007. To be clear, it's not extraordinary or uncommon for people to register certain domain names based on breaking news about a controversial or interesting subject and then sell them for a hefty price. For instance, the domain AirFrance447.com was registered mere hours after news of the airplane's crash/disappearance first broke, while AirFranceLawSuit.com is currently being auctioned off on eBay after being registered on June the 1st. Obviously, it's the date of registration of the two-year-old flight447.com domain that makes the whole thing seem bizarre and somewhat disturbing. As of this writing, the empty domain currently redirects surfers to karimmovies.com, a website dedicated to advertising a Palestinian-Israeli love story named "David and Fatima". It's about a Palestinian Muslim girl's complicated and bicultural relationship with an Israeli soldier. Both the karimmovies.com and flight447.com domains are owned by one Kari Bian, a film producer from Iran that's based here in the United States. Bian insists that the latter domain's serendipitous similarity to the flight number of the missing aircraft was purely coincidental. Bian reckons that it was by accident that his domain is named that way, so there really isn't a connection between it and the missing aircraft. He has nothing to do with the event, though he really does feel remorseful over the so-far seemingly Amelia-Earhart-like fate of the plane's 216 passengers. At any rate, the cause of the flight's crash remains a mystery. |
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