en-html.org is a Scam Site

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A scam group operating under en-html.org is emailing website administrators, claiming ownership of dead domains and requesting links be redirected to their mirrors in an attempt to game search rankings for future SEO services. The author recommends ignoring the emails, pointing links to archive.org instead, and possibly blackholing the domain via DNS.

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# en-html.org is a Scam Site Source: [https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/10/09/en-html-org-scam-site/](https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/10/09/en-html-org-scam-site/) Currently a scam group is sending out email to the administrators of web sites that link to a variety of dead domains\. They claim to be the legitimate operators of the dead domains in question and request that the links change to mirrors of the web sites under en\-html\.org\. Their end goal appears to game search engines by getting links from a lot of old web pages and later use that high ranking for selling SEO optimisation\. If you have made the mistake of linking to something under en\-html\.org then I recommend that you change the link to the original content on archive\.org\. If you receive email from the en\-html\.org domain then ignore it, or configure your mail server to reject it\. I am seriously considering configuring the DNS servers I run to return no valid data for any requests under that domain\. Also I will reject all future requests to update links in old blog posts\. The very small number of people who want to see what I linked to in old posts can use archive\.org\. ## Post navigation

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