Today, while analysing my site's referrers, I found three odd domains pointing to a particular article on my site (Chaos Laboratory).

All three domains are running a bulletin board system and the links came from a certain post in each. Here are the referring posts:

• http://www.campusblender.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=251569
• http://www.partyeastcarolina.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=251569
• http://www.partyapp.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=251569

What drew my attention to it was the topic ID in each link which were 100% identical. So I decided to take a look at those links and to my utter surprise found that in each case the whole thread was 100% identical, including the users who posted in it.

A little further investigation revealed that except for partyeastcarolina.com, the other two domains belong to the same person named John Marsh..

• http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=campusblender.com
• http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=partyapp.com

Partyeastcarolina belongs to someone else... http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=...astcarolina.com

While this isn't causing any problem for me anyhow (am getting links from 3 domains for free ), I'm still surprised at how this thing workd.. is it that this guy is employing some sort of mirroring mechanism or is it the same database they're sharing through remote connection (OpaQue's deduction) ??

Any bright ideas ?? Anyone else encountered this before ???

Cheers,
m^e

As far as I can conclude, all three sites are part of the PartyInCollege network. If you take a look at the root forum pages, you will see that the first one has only a National Forum which also appear on the other two. However, the second and the third also have a Local Forum

So, I think that these sites have similar purpose and a different audince - but because of the same purpose, there is also a part of the message board that is shard They probably use the same database...

Hmmm... this strikes some resemblance to what I would want to achieve. I mean, I want to work on a solution that has a similar requirement but for blogs and not for forums.

I actually want to run a couple of blogs that shares all the posts it makes in a root or main blog. Also, some of the posts are shown in two or more blogs among them.

Is this possible? Could some one explain an approach in a little bit more detail if there is a solution?

I'm thinking that those sites probably all use the same database. And then perhaps each different domain really just all directs to the same site, which is the reason why all the topic numbers are the same.


Perhaps this could be sorted with the right amount of filtering with some categories? Let's say you're using Wordpress (if you're coding your own then anything is doable =P ). You could put the "root" posts under one category, say "root". And then put your other posts under other categories, say "radio" and "tv". Then, you can use the category filters for the "loop" to display only posts from root or combinations of posts from root, radio and tv. And then all you have to do is create several of these index pages and point your domain to each different index page. Eh, sorry if that explanation made little sense. XD

Hey Aribitrary, yes, indeed, I can do it with use of Catergories. I mean, if I choose the category archival link, only the post in that comes. But the issue is that I want it to be displayed in a different site all together.

For example, say I have a site ABC.com that is the root blog, and has all the blog posts.

Next, I have another two domains, C1.com and C2.com that should pull blog posts from specific categories from ABC.com blog. Is this possible?

This is rather strange but I would also say its definatly from the same database! That would explain the same topic ID, also knowing that they are part of the same network can confirm its the same database!

Enjoy the extra advertising!