readthedocs / readthedocs/website
Potential counterfeit website
Nobody has claimed this yet.
- Dominant language
- HTML
- Stars
- 21
- Forks
- 10
- Avg merge
- 3d 18h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 8
Description
Hello, i was surfing the web when I came across this domain: https://readsthedocs.com/
As you may notice it has an 's' that should not be there (reads)
After a quick whois + dns lookup it is revealed (https://whois.domaintools.com/readsthedocs.com) that this domain is bought from Russia, far away from where the original domain is registered.
The footer lacks the GitHub, Twitter, and Mastodon buttons, they are hidden. As of today it does redirect users to the normal site when clicking on 'log in' or 'sign up', or so appears to do.
I have also a copy of the webpage in archive.is: https://archive.is/mQRTq
Contributor guide
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the reported readsthedocs.com domain, the WHOIS/DNS link, and the archived copy at archive.is/mQRTq, comparing them with the official Read the Docs website. Done means documenting whether the site is counterfeit and recording the maintainer-approved response; the issue names no repository files or tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- html
- Domain
- security, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100