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Valleywag, brought to you by....Google? #

Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Gawker Media's use of virtual hosting for its sites was being discussed in PartyChat, so to verify this, I ran host valleywag.com to compare it with host fleshbot.com. Imagine my surprise when I saw this output:

$ host valleywag.com
valleywag.com has address 69.60.7.199
valleywag.com mail is handled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
valleywag.com mail is handled by 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
valleywag.com mail is handled by 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
valleywag.com mail is handled by 10 aspmx2.googlemail.com.

If I am interpreting this correctly, Valleywag's email is being handled by Gmail/Google Apps, which is slightly ironic.

5 Comments

How, exactly, is this ironic?
Posted by: Brett September 26, 2007 at 6:00 PM
Ironic given all of Valleywag's harping on Google and Gmail specifically, e.g.:

http://valleywag.com/tech/your-privacy-is-an-illusion/google-tells-hacked-gmail-users-to-wait-it-out-285391.php
Posted by: Mihai Parparita September 26, 2007 at 6:13 PM
Can't they make any criticism if they are using the product? I bet that this post is going to be deleted.
Posted by: Anonymous September 27, 2007 at 2:26 AM
Nick D. and Owen T. are employed by Google, huh?

ah-ha, I knew it! :-)
Posted by: ThomasHan September 27, 2007 at 8:17 AM

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