Keith’s note: All websites hosted at NASA.gov addresses websites present this placeholder when you try and visit them since all websites hosted at ***.NASA.gov are supposed to be offline. But JPL.NASA.gov is online. It would seem that JPL folks are making an illegal/unauthorized expenditure of tax funds to keep their overtly official NASA.gov website online. JPL is just another NASA contractor and bills NASA for everything eventually w/overhead – just […]

Welcome to the NASA.gov Forum “We’re starting on the next go-round of what NASA.gov looks like and want to know what you think. The digital universe has changed radically since we overhauled www.NASA.gov in 2007. Everyone’s use of social media and smartphones has exploded. Visits to NASA’s web sites dropped for a couple of years, then set records in 2011 and this year. How are you making sense of all […]

Analysis of DNSSEC Validation Failure Comcast – DNS Engineering, Comcast” “How Did Users Interpret the Failure? The DNSSEC-related misconfiguration of the NASA.GOV domain unfortunately occurred on the same day that some Internet websites such as Wikipedia and Reddit blacked out their sites in protest over the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills in in the U.S. Congress. … Despite this, a website that discusses NASA-related news and information, called NASA Watch […]

Keith’s note: Comcast has decided to block customer access to *.NASA.gov due, I am told, to an issue involving how NASA maintains its DNS records. Why these geniuses at Comcast chose the SOPA/PIPA protest day to do this is curious to say the least. Right now, if you are a Comcast customer, you are being purposefully denied access to one part of your government’s services. Keith’s update: I have confirmed […]

Dawn Obtains First Low Altitude Images of Vesta Keith’s note: This press release says “More information about the Dawn mission is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn and http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov.” That’s two separate websites at NASA for the same mission. But wait – there’s yet another here. But you also reach this site if you go to http://www.nasa.gov/dawn. Two websites and three web addresses. Then there are the multiple official Kepler websites: http://www.nasa.gov/kepler/, http://kepler.arc.nasa.gov/, […]

Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle! NASA.gov Beat Google! “So how are we doing? Pretty well it seems. Our scores for September and for the third quarter of 2010 were the highest we’ve ever gotten. We continue to outpace web sites generally and most other federal-government sites, and we remain fairly close to some of the most widely used commercial sites. Our September score of 83 wasn’t too far behind Netflix and Amazon, […]

Reader note: I took interest in Nmap Developers Release a Picture of the Web from slashdot.org. The article says: “The Nmap Project recently posted an awesome visualization of the top million site icons (favicons) on the Web, sized by relative popularity of sites. This project used the Nmap Scripting Engine, which is capable of performing discovery, vulnerability detection, and anything else you can imagine with lightning speed. We saw last […]