bad site http://www.ca.freebsd.org/

in google I type in freebsd from Canada and this always shows up as the result. So I have to enter freebsd.org
manually in the address box.
 
It can't be a domain squatter, it has an entry off of freebsd.org - which means we know that record.
clusteradm@ knows about the issue and will be dealing with it "shortly"
 
www.ca.freebsd.org.png

Its still there this morning. But at least it doesn't look like the main Freebsd page under the link.
 
That is an ad paid for by dreaming.org on Google's AdWords. I can reach it if I type the complete address as 'www.ca.freebsd.org' which is a strange address. I'm surprised Google approved it.

Google hands out $100 in free ads to just about anyone with a web site. Obviously this ad is misleading and the content at the site is almost gibberish.

I'll look to see if there's a place to report this for AdWords.

EDIT:

Here is a link to complain about this:
https://support.google.com/adwords/bin/request.py?contact_type=feedback
 
The site belongs to a Will Rowe in Toronto: https://plus.google.com/106963890009291409537/posts

One of his posts suggest he runs or ran the Canadian FreeBSD CVSup mirror: https://plus.google.com/106963890009291409537/posts/LD1KUGp4Qy7

I received noticed that our one Canadian CVSUp mirror is being shut down by its administrators.

So... i'm looking for another person or organization willing to donate a bit of spare bandwidth and a fair bit of spare disk space to the cause.

So it's probably not something that warrants a complaint, and it's not a case of mistaken identity, or typo-squatting:


Code:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.ca.freebsd.org.	86312	IN	CNAME	www1.ca.freebsd.org.
www1.ca.freebsd.org.	86315	IN	CNAME	freebsd.dreaming.org.
freebsd.dreaming.org.	86315	IN	CNAME	dreaming.org.
dreaming.org.		86315	IN	A	50.57.149.154

It's probably better to ask the FreeBSD hostmaster to sever the DNS ties with ca.freebsd.org.
 
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