There's way too much work there for it to have been created by anyone without a strong mission and powerful web development software... pictures, video, man... this looks pretty damn sleazy...
There are allegations that one of the Marketing Managers at kmart, I will leave his name out for now, posted a website bashing Okemo. Nothing is confirmed yet but evidence gathered seems very conclusive. I really don't know if Alan Wilson is stll running kmart but if he is there is no way he would have been aware of this. Again, the facts have not been confirmed and are just allegations at this point.
The Rutland Herald has just been alerted and we will soon find out if this is true. They won a Pulizer Prize a few years ago, probably Vermont's best paper plus kmart is just up the road.
The site in question is http://okemonotorious.com
www.firstlightphotographics.com
Sugarbusher since 1970
Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads.
There's way too much work there for it to have been created by anyone without a strong mission and powerful web development software... pictures, video, man... this looks pretty damn sleazy...
Ithaca is (not) Vermont (but it is gorges)
Strat, you probably know more about this I do. The domain name was registered thru myprivateregistration.com in Australia.
www.firstlightphotographics.com
Sugarbusher since 1970
Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads.
There's a thread about this on the TGR forums. It is definitely a K-Mart marketing guy that put this together. I honestly don't see what the big deal is - Okemo is flat out lying and K-Mart is calling them on it, albeit in a rather underhanded way.
It appears to be hosted by Yahoo, and somehow affilliated/connected to W3C (World Wide Web Consortium).Originally Posted by Strat
The domain must have JUST been registered, as it is not yet in the Whois directory. This one will be interesting to watch!
Tin, I can't believe your saying this.....you have complained about the credibility of ski resort marketing departments for years, and rightly so. If this is true it will damage further the good ski resort marketing departments that are making an honest effort to restore the faith that has been lost over the years. I have no problem with kmart calling out Okemo but to do it this way is just plain wrong.Originally Posted by Tin Woodsman
There is already talk about Okemo suing ASC. The owners of Okemo are very respected and well known operaters in the ski resort biz world and person that did this will find out he picked the wrong bird to pluck.
www.firstlightphotographics.com
Sugarbusher since 1970
Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads.
It is in the whois directory, that's how it was so easy to find the name of the person who posted the site, alittle more digging resulted in his name with resume.Originally Posted by BushMogulMaster
www.firstlightphotographics.com
Sugarbusher since 1970
Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads.
I just found it too. Wasn't in the first Whois lookup I used.Originally Posted by ski_resort_observer
Direct WhoIs link for those who want to see....
http://www.whois.net/whois_new.cgi?d...orious&tld=com
Ithaca is (not) Vermont (but it is gorges)
So ASC gets a windfall from selling Steamboat and this is how they start to spend it. Classic.
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Needless to say, this is looks like a new form of viral marketing. Designed to make it look like people, instead of corporations, are talking positive or negative about a product. It will be interesting to see where this goes. I'm not completely offended yet, but I probably need to give kmart more time. So far its just aggressive. When kmart's marketing makes there own mistep they will get theirs. Anyways, kmart can talk bad about other ski areas, but in the end its still an overcrowded mess of a mountain.
So ASC gets a windfall from selling Steamboat and this is how they start to spend it. Classic.
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Needless to say, this is looks like a new form of viral marketing. Designed to make it look like people, instead of corporations, are talking positive or negative about a product. It will be interesting to see where this goes. I'm not completely offended yet, but I probably need to give kmart more time. So far its just aggressive. When kmart's marketing makes there own mistep they will get theirs. Anyways, kmart can talk bad about other ski areas, but in the end its still an overcrowded mess of a mountain.
Alright, the plot thickens... the name on the whois search is indeed a Killington employee, but the addresses and "myprivateregistration.com" are fake... myprivateregistration is a "well known phishing and internet scam service provider" according to this post on Scamfraudalert.com... I'm not sure how all this links together but it's certainly very, very fishy...Originally Posted by ski_resort_observer
Ithaca is (not) Vermont (but it is gorges)
Interesting... very VERY interesting. I'll have to research this one some more.Originally Posted by Strat
The "Organisation Name" is Dwight Eppinger, who is a marketing manager at Killington. A page on the Killington site refers to him as, "Interactive Marketing Manager, Dwight Eppinger."Originally Posted by WHOIS
It all fits the bill. An interactive marketing manager would probably have the knowledge to throw something like that together. I wonder if he realized the possible repercussions of his actions?
What an idiot to put his name on the domain reg.!! I would have gone with "Default User" or something similar.
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