User talk:Melodypoet

Talk:Joel Osteen

Joel Osteen hoaxes: domain - "www.joelostenministries.com"

According to "Internet Archive", a large archival of websites, the first snapshot of the domain, "www.joelostenministries.com" occurred on February 7, 2011 with additional snapshots on April 24, 2013 and June 8, 2013. The last two snapshots redirect to a temporary unavailable webpage.

Through "Internet Archive" (IA), the hoax can be accessed in this manner: 1) entering the URL into IA's search field; 2) selecting February 2011 from the horizontal calendar; 3) clicking the blue circled date on February 7th; and 4) selecting the link, Joel Osteen which directs to the April 8, 2013 snapshot of "www.joelostenministries.com" via "http://web.archive.org/web/20110207232445/http://joelostenministries.com/."

The unknown author of the website, "joelostenministries.com" may have purchased the domain name as a parked domain from Oversee.net, a domain provider, possibly near the date of February 7, 2011, IA's first snapshot.

The IP address 208.73.211.249, for "joelostenministries.com" was found at IP Checking, a reverse Internet Provider (IP) lookup database that displays the IP address and the regional internet registry (RIR) service. American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the RIR for the IP address 208.73.211.249.

Melodypoet (talk) 20:09, 14 October 2013 (UTC)