Wednesday, Dec 12, 2007
Is the BofE sending us a message ???
google search: www.housepricerise.co.uk
anyone else tried this url.
Posted by hn @ 03:54 PM (1151 views) Add Comment
4 Comments
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1. drewster said...
haha very funny! Was it one of us?
2. Root said...
That isn't the BOE themselves, it's someone re-presenting the site under a different name for some reason...
Domain name:
housepricerise.co.uk
Registrant:
Ben Burnside
Registrant type:
Unknown
Registrant's address:
Unit 1 carr end farm
Glaisdale
YO21 2QH
GB
Registrar:
Fibranet Services Ltd [Tag = FIBRANET]
...whereas the real site...
Domain name:
bankofengland.co.uk
Registrant:
Bank of England
Registrant type:
Unknown
Registrant's address:
Bank of England
Threadneedle Street
London
EC2R 8AH
GB
Registrar:
Verizon UK Ltd [Tag = UUNETPIPEX]
URL: http://www.verizonbusiness.com/uk
...interesting.
3. confused76 said...
UAHHHHH AHHH AHHHA HAHHHHH
too funny!
4. Nmarks said...
Just had a quick look at the Who Is database to see who the site is registered to..
http://www.who.is/whois-uk/ip-address/housepricerise.co.uk/
Frankly I'm surprised that the Bank of England would use a .co.uk domain name. I would have expected it to be .org.uk.
The details seem suspicious to me. The domain name is registered to a private individual in the north, rather than the Bank itself. Is someone illegally masquerading as the Bank?
If it is genuine, why would the Bank feel the need to register www.housepricerise.co.uk?
I think its time to hand this over to the financial press for further enquiries.