What does a neophyte who has just discovered the web do?
He would sign up with every free E-mail provider encountered, create a multiple accounts with every site that offers webspace or blog hosting and so on.. What happens when an organisation 'discovers' about virtual servers, sub-domains and other TLDs?
Those at IIPM have laboured and worked themselves into a domain registering, cum website proliferating frenzy! Yet another example of megalomaniac tendency of IIPM to over-state facts and exaggerate to the point of nausea!
Armed with a dirt cheap reseller accounts at technolozy.com (yes, its Hinglish!) and thewebhostingpeople.com running on a windoze IIS 6.0 box, Arundam Chaudauri's fantastic web-mastering team has worked overtime to come up with dozens of sites with almost nil or redundant content, each cross linking each other in a quest to get high page ranks on google - Google spamming at its best! [Puneet had reported on IIPM's google spamming in his Oct. 14 Article together with screenshots and under the hood examinations]
The motive behind this might be to flood google with IIPM friendly sites, or it might be a novel way of damage control - Google's listings for IIPM key word is filled with links to the Blogosphere commenting on IIPM-Sabnis/Rashmi Legal threats fiasco - that the *clever* management at IIPM could have brainstormed a plan to equally drench the net with sites extolling the Institute's virtual virtues!
Thus they have a series of sub-domains of the following pattern, 'www.newsx.iipm.edu' where x is a number... these sub-domain sites host a piece of PR advertorials IIPM has managed to book in various periodicals and dailies.
For the record, as of today, here is a list of IIPM sprawn sites:
- www.iipm.edu
- www.iipm.us
- www.chennai.iipm.edu
- www.iipm.ind.in
- www.pune.iipm.edu
- www.iipmpublications.com
- www.bangalore.iipm.edu
- www.iipm-iipm.co.in
- www.iipm.info
- www.iipm-business-school.org
- www.iipm-business-management-institute.biz
- www.iipm-iipm.info
- www.iipm-iipm.com
- www.iipm-india.us
- www.iipm-iipm.info
- www.iipm-india.us
- www.news.iipm.edu
- www.chennai.iipm.us
- www.bangalore.iipm.info
- www.arindamchaudhuri.iipm.edu
- www.planmanlife.com
The News Series sites are around 19 and counting.. they start as:
www.news1.iipm.edu
www.news2.iipm.edu
www.news3.iipm.edu
www.news4.iipm.edu
--- all the way to 19 ------
www.news18.iipm.edu
www.news19.iipm.edu
Phew!
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