Fake Windstone website?

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July 31, 2013 at 11:58 am #506539
Cassandra
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I feel very confused. When I was searching for Windstones I came across this strange site which is awfully similar to the actual Windstone website.
http://windstoneeditions.net/catalog
July 31, 2013 at 3:15 pm #900913
dragonmedley
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:O Wow!

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July 31, 2013 at 3:22 pm #900914
twindragonsmum
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Weird! Could it be part of the real Windstone pages?

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July 31, 2013 at 3:26 pm #900915
Mary
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That site is registered to Windstone. If ever in doubt, you can use the Internet tool “Whois” to see who is the registered owner of any site.

http://whois.net/whois/windstoneeditions.net

You can see that the address is Windstone’s & it shows who’s hosting the website for Windstone.

There are lots of suffixes like .org, .net, .com, .edu, .biz, and often businesses register any commercial suffixes so that spoofers cannot take them to fool people that they’re legitimate.
July 31, 2013 at 3:33 pm #900916
96037 – Weasels on Easels
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haha look through the website! it appears to be where they test things at! the forums are old and there is even a pyo gallery 2. There is aforum thread called “post testing grounds” where they appear to be testing the posts. the most recent post is in Foo Dogs, from 10/2/12 and simply says test. you can even see everyone (drag0nfeathers, hannah, purplecat) old pics and everything.kinda cool

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July 31, 2013 at 3:42 pm #900917
96037 – Weasels on Easels
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if you go into the shop it even has some things listed as in stock. funny to imagine someone trying to buy an item that is actually not instock..

EDIT** even in the blog about a pyo gargoyle?

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July 31, 2013 at 5:23 pm #900924
Susie
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You have accidentally found your way into our “development site” – We are fixing things so that door is no longer open. Sorry about that! Please do not order anything from there, I don’t think it will work but if it does, that would not be a good thing. Sorry about the confusion! We’ve been working on improvements to our site and have been using it a lot lately.
July 31, 2013 at 5:31 pm #900925
Susie
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O.K. – the development site is no longer accessible – if you use the link above you will just go into our regular “Real” operative site! Sorry about the confusion!
July 31, 2013 at 5:40 pm #900926
96037 – Weasels on Easels
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lol that is hilarious! 🙂

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July 31, 2013 at 8:00 pm #900931
Bullsquid
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I’m glad to see that this was just Windstone’s testing grounds and not someone trying to scam people.
July 31, 2013 at 10:59 pm #900944
Cassandra
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lol that is a huge relief to know that it was just a test site. And I’m happy that no one will be able to find it and get confused like I did =P
August 1, 2013 at 3:08 am #900957
96037 – Weasels on Easels
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I still find the concept of a mirror site funny. I’ll say I had fun exploring it and reading really old threads. 🙂

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August 1, 2013 at 5:55 am #900966
Kim
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What I do sometimes on here when I don’t have much else to do is I go through pages of threads under General Windstone and click on which titles catch my interest. So far I have gone back 70 pages and was reading some interesting threads from 2007. I came across one about an older lady’s collection that had died that someone purchased from an antique shop and it was interesting reading the mystery of how they came to discover who this person was. It was happy and then a little sad and then seemed to have a more peaceful ending. I read other happy and not so happy threads too but overall it’s been interesting reading people’s opinions and how everyone works things out on here.

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