Whatever happened to Mustangmods photo hosting?

[VibrantRedGT]

I think it was called this. When I wrote the 94-95 Mustang GT / Cobra Spec sheet thread in the 94-95 Section back in 2004 we relied on MustangMods for picture hosting for just about all of that thread. I see in that thread that all those pictures are red X's. I'd like to get those pictures out of there and host them to Photobucket or another hosting place. Many How-To step by step articles could be revived.

Anyone know about this?

 

[alleymad95GT]

Sorry to say...

They are gone...poof in the wind...never to return...as best I can tell...

Lots of purported reasons...the owner was killed in Iraq...they were hacked and turned into a virus distributor...who knows...

I know for a fact that their domain name registration expired. I remember seeing a screen shot of the whois lookup on one of the other forums...all the problems started right then...people getting viruses from the site...all sorts of bad crap...

Given the timing of all the stuff, I find it highly likely that the link below explains what happened at least to some extent...

Nine Ball attack strikes 40,000 Web sites ( - Security )

 

[RIO5.0]

I tried a couple times to contact Barry, he ran that site and never heard back??? We lost a ton of stuff when that site took a dump...

 

[VibrantRedGT]

Many years ago they were basically the only free photo hosting. Back in the day they charged for photo hosting unlike now. Oh well, we had some great stuff on there, guess it went down with the ship.