Kahler Family Happenings

This is the second part of the story of this website.  To read the first part click here.

As I recovered from the shock of seeing some strange family on my website, I set out to see what had happened.  I had let my domain registration slip.  Since I wasn’t checking email on my old account very often, and spam was such an issue, I simply missed it.

Someone had picked it up, and set it up as an ad site.  The thought behind sites like this is that site visitors will click on the links on the site, generating revenue for the site owner.  You typically see this on domains that are close in spelling to another ‘legitimate’ domain.  Some ad sites also try to get ranked high in google for a specific term or set of terms, then have links to sites that actually sell items.  I understand the thoughts behind this, but couldn’t understand why someone would use kahlerfamily.com for this.  It’s not like it was associated with anything commercial. Read More »

Somewhere around nine years ago, I bought my first domain, kahlerfamily.com.  I was so excited.  I built a website using Microsoft Front Page and a colleague of mine host it for me.  He hosted a few sites as a side business, but wouldn’t take any money from me.  I’d buy him lunch once in a while, and we called it even.  I put up pictures of my daughter for my family to see, and I think I did a pretty good job.

That lasted all of about a month.  I realized that maintaining a website was real work (something that many business people still don’t understand.)  It quickly grew stale, and years later we still had old pictures.  Front Page was just too much effort, and I didn’t have the time. Read More »