HelpToBuy.org DRS danger?

Ben Thomas · Jul 1, 2020

Trauiner said:
Paying 40k for the domain would be too logical for the government. They would more likely spend 150k *of taxpayer money on a legal battle to get it back.

That's an exceedingly good point.

splashweb · Jul 1, 2020

The government has trade mark on "help to buy": Class36 - Financial services related to house purchase. So I would have thought DRS would be the easiest route, but perhaps not their chosen one.

Ben Thomas · Jul 1, 2020

splashweb said:
The government has trade mark on "help to buy": Class36 - Financial services related to house purchase. So I would have thought DRS would be the easiest route, but perhaps not their chosen one.

Another government blunder.

splashweb · Jul 2, 2020

Trauiner said:
They have a trademark on 'Help To Buy Backed by HM Government' - Not 'help to buy' - It's a bit different.

Oops! My bad, too hasty.

Ryan Ewen · Aug 13, 2020

Looks like https://helptobuy.org.uk/ finally got put to work.

Looks like a low end lead gen site - no contact page or FCA permissions but must generate the business for some company or other.

LCHappy · Aug 13, 2020

Robert Smith said:
no contact page or FCA permissions but must generate the business for some company or other.

Doesn't need FCA permission

JMI · Aug 13, 2020

Must have been working very hard - what stats!!

We’ve helped over:

3,007 people

SAVE on average:

3,007 per instruction*

Ryan Ewen · Aug 13, 2020

Lol - the whole site is spammy but it must work.

You need to sell a lot of these types of leads unless you do them yourselves to get your £40k back.

Ryan Ewen · Aug 13, 2020

£40k domain, £1k build costs

JMI · Aug 13, 2020

I'm just not sure it has the legs and potentially missed its peak - also couldn't be a worse time to be launching: recession, covid, mass unemployment, credit defaults and going into winter soon which could = more potential lockdowns and job losses but it was bought in lockdown so they surely would have factored this in.

I kind of wish them luck... it's an interesting punt. I guess there are still that generation out there thick enough to visit sites like this and fill out forms, you only need 1k @ £40 comms job done.

Adam H · Aug 13, 2020

Do some research into what othersites have used that Google adsense publisher ID and you might find who it is

https://domainstats.com/pub-5261703613038425

Siusaidh · Aug 13, 2020

Lol, can you imagine all the multiple tags lining up for September 11th...

Adam H · Aug 13, 2020

Trauiner said:
I think in this instance, the owner has downloaded a theme from one of those 'Warez' style sites. They often come pre-loaded with someones adsense code.

Quite possibly and if that is the case it's probably got some nice back door vulnerabilities loaded with it as well. Although seems to be running the latest version of the divi theme, 4.5.3 which has the latest vunerbility patched. https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020...0000-sites-using-divi-extra-and-divi-builder/

Adam H · Aug 13, 2020

The person that owns it also owns https://www.energysupportlink.org.uk

Edit, Removed link to companies house directors. No need to identify people can do their own digging