What Happened to Diamond Billiards?

Mike the Beginner

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Wondering if anybody knows where Diamond's website went. Every time I've tried to find it recently I just get error pages and redirects. Just curious. Thanks for any info.
 
Solved the mystery. Some websites include tracking software that allows them to peek into your computer and track your browsing habits. I have a tracking blocker and that was what was preventing Diamond's website from loading.

So if you go visit Diamond, be aware that they might be "Big Brothering" you and looking over your shoulder at your online browsing activities.
 
Solved the mystery. Some websites include tracking software that allows them to peek into your computer and track your browsing habits. I have a tracking blocker and that was what was preventing Diamond's website from loading.

So if you go visit Diamond, be aware that they might be "Big Brothering" you and looking over your shoulder at your online browsing activities.

Well, I get this message from Chrome:
The server at www.diamondbilliards.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.​
which doesn't look like what a blocker would produce.

Trying a DNS lookup (with the "nslookup" terminal-mode) gives:

*** Request to google-public-dns-a.google.com timed-out
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 2001:4860:4860::8888

I went to the name server for Diamond, which is NS1.BENJAMINDAVID.NET and got the IP address, but that doesn't work either.
diamondbilliards.com: 207.54.144.207
www.diamondbilliards.com: 207.54.144.207

I think their ISP is broken or their website is munged.
 
Solved the mystery. Some websites include tracking software that allows them to peek into your computer and track your browsing habits. I have a tracking blocker and that was what was preventing Diamond's website from loading.

So if you go visit Diamond, be aware that they might be "Big Brothering" you and looking over your shoulder at your online browsing activities.

If you're talking about tracking cookies, that's now how they work. Neither Diamond nor any other website can see what you browse. As such, tracking cookies are poorly named and get a bad reputation. Cookies, by design, can only track what you do on their site, they can't track what you do on other sites. It may appear that way from ads, where you see something offered on a site based on what you've shopped for or browsed at other sites, but it's an illusion created by the fact that the ad itself carries its own cookie -- an Amazon ad can show you what you've shopped for at Amazon, or a Google ad can show you what you've searched for on Google. But they can't cross over to see what you do on other sites.

Most likely you were running an ad-blocker or anti-malware tool that conflicted (possibly a false positive, it happens often) with something on Diamond's site. I'm pretty confident Diamond's site isn't doing anything nefarious. I've been there many times, including right now, and none of my ad-blocker or anti-malware tools detect anything. Diamond would have no reason to jeopardize their business reputation by spying on users.

Bob, their site works fine for me. You might have (or had) a temporary DNS malfunction.
 
... Bob, their site works fine for me. You might have (or had) a temporary DNS malfunction.
The IP address I have for them is 207.54.144.207 -- is that what you have?

In any case, I still can't connect.
 
The IP address I have for them is 207.54.144.207 -- is that what you have?

In any case, I still can't connect.

Yes that's what I resolve to, and it works fine for me. Also using Chrome. Have you run a traceroute?

Their web server isn't accessible by IP alone, they don't have a default page configured for their IIS server. They're likely using named virtual hosts so only the domain name will serve their site.
 
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