Air France flight and unusual Domain Names
As investigators seek to unravel the fate of Air France flight 447, there’s been speculation online about an unusual domain name registration made some two years prior to this week’s plane crash, flight447.com.
It has emerged that someone registered a domain for the missing plane’s flight number on September 30, 2007.
It’s not unusual for individuals to register domain names shortly after news breaks on a big story and then to sell them. Indeed, a second domain AirFrance447.com was registered the day of the crash, hours after the news made headlines, and a third domain
AirFranceLawSuit.com is being auctioned on eBay this week after being registered the day after the crash.
The timing of the two-year-old flight447.com, however, makes it unusual.
The domains are owned by Kari Bian, an Iranian film producer based in the United States.
When contacted, Bian said that the connection between his registration and the crash is coincidental.
