Most of my posts on here have been of a very technical nature. Today, I will break that chain.

This afternoon I ran across a blog post uncovering the source of yard signs that I’ve been seeing around the St. Louis area for the past two years. You may have seen some wherever you live, also. They basically all say something like “Single? YourTownSingles.com”, obviously with ‘YourTown’ replaced with ‘StLouis’ or ‘StPeters’, ‘Ofallon’, etc.

Having a technical background, I know it’s not rocket science to build a site that will respond to multiple domain names. In fact, done it numerous times. However, the signs still seemed odd to me because there were just so many of them and they were so localized.

Well, this guy took the time to hunt down where they came from. Gotta give him credit for the technical sleuthing - WHOIS, traceroute, digs, and reverse lookups. He put an awful lot of time and effort into this. If you’re curious who’s behind the signs, check out his post, I won’t spoil it for you…