NCIX bought by Amazon??????

[Chronified]

Hi crew. I can't find any details on this anywhere (not that I looked hard) but the NCIX website is now forwarding to Amazon. 

Did Amazon buy out the rest of the company perhaps???

 

Try clicking for yourself

http://www.ncix.ca 

More on the WAN show for speculation, perhaps?   

[TheKDub]

 

Someone bought the domain most likely. The URL looks like that of an affiliate link.

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

Almost certainly someone bought the domain and is re-directing it. NCIX.com goes nowhere, and I doubt anyone would want to buy NCIX, if they were run poorly enough to go into full-on bankruptcy.... and then auction off servers that didn't have customer data removed.

[Chronified]

2 minutes ago, TheKDub said:

 

Someone bought the domain most likely. The URL looks like that of an affiliate link.

After checking out the breakdown of Amazon links you seem to be correct, I wonder if this is paying off the costs for that domain for now lol. 

 

Just now, SlayerOfHellWyrm said:

Almost certainly someone bought the domain and is re-directing it. NCIX.com goes nowhere, and I doubt anyone would want to buy NCIX, if they were run poorly enough to go into full-on bankruptcy.... and then auction off servers that didn't have customer data removed.

Hmm I wonder how much that domain is worth and if it's worth it at this point do to the same lol

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

Just let them be dead, don't give people false hope, and moreover, don't be the asshat who's redirecting it to their affiliate link. Pretty sure they can't do that either and they'll get nailed for it eventually, I'm sure.

[minibois]

The tag related to the affiliate link is "nciz-20" (and for example the LTT tag is "linustechti02-21" for reference on how a tag could look like), but there doesn't seem to be a way to check who that tag belongs too.

From what I remember reading, after visiting such a site the tag remains active for 24 hours after clicking a link, so if I visited a link with either code and within 24 hours buy something on Amazon, they still get a kickback. Might be wrong on that one though.

 

This person probably makes a decent bit of money from this..

But I don't find that fair.. So just visit the Amazon link here to clean yourself up :

 

 

EDIT: not to be a narc/snitch.. But this is not allowed.

Amazon Affiliate link policies: https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/help/operating/policies/

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2.    Disqualified Purchases

 

[...]

 

(e)    any Product purchased by a customer who is referred to an Amazon Site by a link that sends users indirectly to an Amazon Site via an intermediate site, without requiring the customer to click on a link or take some other affirmative action on that intermediate site (a “Redirecting Link”),

 

[Chronified]

1 minute ago, Arika S said:

question: why did you try to go to their website anyway? you know they haven't been operating for a while right?

Was poking around at old GPU prices using Archive.org and got curious lol

http://web.archive.org/web/20050403234818/http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=10703&vpn=100-435101&manufacture=ATI

[Chronified]

2 minutes ago, Arika S said:

so why did you go to ncix.ca when their website was ncix.com?

Because I live in Canada and that was still in my autocomplete in Chrome from years ago

[Chronified]

7 minutes ago, Arika S said:

so why did you go to ncix.ca when their website was ncix.com?

++ Archive.org didn't start archiving the .ca site until 2011

[desertcomputer]

I wonder what the domain got from auctions.