Technology Reports

This morning when I got up, I found I had a message in my inbox that had came from the contact form on one of my proxy sites.

The message was short, sharp and to the point: it said

Your TechnologyReports Web Proxy has been blocked by Websense.

So, off to see if it had been blocked, I logged into websense to check it out. and sure enough on a database update on the 15th Feb 2007 the site was blocked. Now, this site has only been live and online for about 2 1/2 weeks and the search revealed the following:

URL: http://bypass.technologyreports.info
Category: Proxy Avoidance
Database version: 92731
Database date: 15 Feb 2007
Product used: Websense Enterprise® v6.2

Now, I understand why people who run Proxy sites don’t just run 1 - they have literally hundreds of domain names.

This means that all the effort I put into getting the site known has probably already come to a halt and I need to consider setting up another domain as a Proxy. What I will look at and consider, is to set up some additional sub-domains so that hte technologyreports proxy can continue to work. I just need to experiment with all possible solutions and see how it goes.

The good thing is that by having a blog as the main page of the domain, people searching for technologyreports will probably end up here on this blog, and as long as I continue to update a post and link here, I can probably change the sub-domain of the proxy fairly regularly and give people who use the proxy the freedom to do just that without being filtered. Let me know what you think!