FUND ACCOUNTS 2007 - MARCH 2008:
THE WEBSITES
CHRONOLOGY OF WEBSITES REGISTRATION:
day 6 - 11th may
07: 1st official website launched as
day 13- 16th may 07
2nd official website registered as: www.findmadeleine.com
(day 15 - 18th may 07 -Trade mark filing date for Madeleine’s Fund - leaving no stone unturned
Trademark nr. 2456061)
Note:
to use the word ‘Fund’ special
permission has to be granted - this too, in view of the quick incorporation of
the Ltd. Co. has been achieved in just a few days, which included a weekend and
bank holiday. From Companies House website:
FUND: You cannot use this word
unless the body shown below confirms (by letter or email) SensitiveBusinessn@FCA.Org.UK
day 23 - 26th may 07
3rd official website registered as
www.cuddlecat.co.uk - linked to
www.findmadeleine.com - linked to
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Infohost
was contacted by Philomena McCann on the 6th of May.
Admin
contact: MacRae, Cameron - Ullapool.
UK
reg service provider: domains@fasthosts.co.uk
Registrar
of Record TUCOWS. INC.
Record
last updated on 11 May 2007
Domain
servers NS3/NS2/NS1 LIVEDNS.CO.UK
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Registration
Service provider:
Fasthosts
Internet Limited, domains@fasthosts.co.uk
Registrar
of Record TUCOWS. INC
Record
last updated on 11 April 2013
Record
expires 11 May 2014
(Same
servers)
The
website was created on the 11th, live on the 13th and fully functioning with
bank account details published by the 17th - the day of the launch of the Fund.
(A title which may have been inspired by the ‘Bring him home’ song from Les Miserables which was popular at the time).
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FINDMADELEINE.COM
In conjunction, the website is
relaunched under the new name www.findmadeleine.com, although this is not
officially announced until the next day, 17 May 2007.
According to the
McCanns interview with Steve Boggan in the Guardian, the domain name
'findmadeleine.com' was originally purchased by a stranger in France and
then donated to the family. (http://www.mccannfiles.com/id58.html)
It has it’s own web content on the 11th
of May and links to CEOP as official page, but a few days later it links to
bringmadeleinehome.com
However,
Jon Corner registers findmadeleine.org on the 14th of May 2007:
Domain
ID:D145995330-LROR
Domain
Name: FINDMADELEINE.ORG
Created
ON: 14-May-2007 14:31:24 UTC
Last
Updated on: 14-May-2009 16:18:36 UTC
Expiration
Date: 14-May-2010 14:31:24 UTC
Sponsoring
Registrar:Tuscows Inc (R11-LROR)
Registrant
Name: Jon Corner
FINDMADELEINE.COM
changes servers in 2013:
Domain
Name: FINDMADELEINE.COM
Registrar:
GODADDY.COM, LLC
Referral
URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Name
Server: PDNS03.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name
Server: PDNS04.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Status:
clientDeleteProhibited
Status:
clientRenewProhibited
Status:
clientTransferProhibited
Status:
clientUpdateProhibited
Updated
Date: 03-may-2013
Creation
Date: 10-may-2007
Expiration
Date: 10-may-2015
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CUDDLECAT.CO.UK
Despite the supposed creation date of 26th of May cuddlecat.co.uk doesn’t have any archived history, first archive is June 12th, 2008 where it links to bringmadeleinehome.
It seemed to change hands in December 2013 which is also the date that the McCanns changed servers of the main website: findmadeleine.com
(In January 2008 there are in any case more than 40 cuddlecats connected with the case:
Daily Mail: 25 January 2008:
Método 3, whose contract expires in March, has 40 investigators working on the case, here and in Portugal and Spain. Each has a replica of Cuddle Cat, Madeleine's favourite toy, which they are encouraged to squeeze when they feel demotivated at the size of their task. unquote)
Page of the new website:
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This screenshot is of some interest. The website had been live for 7 days on the 18th of May 2007, yet it tells us that more than 40 million hits have been processed by the servers NS1, NS2 and NS3. This must surely be a record.
Michael Wright (see below) tells us that on the 18th - he is reading out the press release during the day - there were 5 million hits - as the website above is updated at 01.20 AM, that would make it a total of 45 million in less than 8 days.
Note also that the name Madenleine underneath the photograph of the eye defect that was never 'made much of' according to the parents (see post The Logic Gates) is a typing error. Something one would not expect a professional website designer to do, but is quite understandable if that wasn't the case.
Apart from the 40 million views, it is interesting that at this date the counter for the mobile phone donations is displayed, giving the total received.
DONATIONS: (listed on the
official website)
By
phone:
Text
"MADDIE" to 60999 and £1 will be taken from your phone for the
Madeleine Fund.
Over the
counter:any branch of NatWest and The
Royal Bank of Scotland.
Postal
Donations can be made with cheques payable
to 'Madeleine's Fund :
Cheques
should be posted to the following address:‘Madeleine’s Fund’
c/o
International Family Law Group, 26 Southampton Street, Covent Garden, London
WC2E 7RS
Internet
donations - via NatWest bank
Instant
donations can now be made via Paypal
Internet
banking donations from abroad - IBAN BIC nr etc.
Donations From
Ireland:
Allied
Irish Bank (AIB)
Account
number: 07511020 Madeleine McCann account
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From
the accounts it can be seen that over the period May 2007 - March 2008,
the cost of the website is listed as £ 37071,-. Which seems a little
expensive considering that it is
apparently run from a garage in
Ullapool by a family member and enthusiastic teenagers.
The cost of a professionally designed website isn’t likely to be much
more than £ 3000,- in this case.
The information that the findmadeleine.com’ was donated by a person in France and that this domain name was then used for the official
site is rather puzzling.
To confuse matters further, the email address for the campaign is linked to bringmadeleinehome.com (see transcript below).
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On
the 18th of May 2007 Michael Wright presented this press release:
Gerry
and Kate have asked me to give you an idea of the spread and scale of the
campaign and the huge response to the fund that was officially launched
yesterday.
Let
me start by saying that Gerry and Kate
are taking immense strength from the support and the good wishes they are
receiving from all over the world.
They
have been totally overwhelmed by offers from individuals, small companies and
large multi-national corporations. Both of them are firmly fixed on the
campaign which is designed to raise Madeleine’s profile right across Europe and
ensure we bring her home safely.
Their
purpose is to turn hope into action, whilst none of us are experts in
campaigning the situation we have found ourselves in has galvanised us into
action and made us think creatively.
We
are leaving no stone unturned and we have a huge number of partners who are
helping us to that from sporting celebrities to big business. Top of the
list are the UK and Portuguese media in particular who have played a huge part
in maintaining the profile of this case and the awareness of Madeleine.
We
need your continued support and now need to increase the coverage right across
Europe.
Our
campaign has started with an expansive poster distribution across Europe and
our partners include multi
nationals from the oil, banking, telecoms and retail sectors.
Other multi national companies
have already started to include Madeleine’s image on every outgoing email.
The
response to yesterday’s launch has been huge. The official website has
received over 5 million hits today and the scale of response has brought
some difficulties and they are being dealt with.
But
this is just the start, each day brings more offers of help and new ideas we
are open to anything that will bring Madeleine home.
I
anyone wants to offer practical help we can be reached at : campaign@bringmadeleinehome.com.
Thank you. unquote
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Points
which are communicated although not necessarily correct:
the
‘partners’ of TM must include Beckham for one, as well as the other football and
rugby celebrities mentioned. None of these appear to have continued their ‘partnership’
with TM. Although it is interesting that according to the press release on the
16th the Fund was launched by a Rugby Captain and a photograph of Madeleine
wearing an Everton T-shirt was released fairly soon after that date, calling to mind the iconic and tragic photo of the two Soham girls.
It
is merely my opinion that the unnamed
‘multi-national companies’ and in
particular those who apparently undertook to send a photograph of Madeleine
with every email would surely not have
objected to have their names mentioned?
It's hard to get around the cost of £37K for such a simple website, just a few pages linked together and online store software that cost £200. It'd be interesting to see copies of the invoices and which of the fund directors approved it.
ReplyDeleteEven more interesting to see if the person named on the invoice actually "received" the £ 37,000 !
DeleteI have said it before elsewhere and I will repeate again and again, Clarrie's shirts always seem so well LAUNDERED. Not sure if it's a forum myth but I heard Kate LAUNDERED the curtains of 5A and cuddle cat most certainly was LAUNDERED. And if I'm not mistaken wasn't there some problem with the LAUNDRY machine in 5A, oh! and lets not forget Metodo3's dirty LAUNDRY.
ReplyDelete- and the pyjamas were LAUNDERED on the Thursday ...and later the Pope's blessing washed away all stains...
ReplyDeleteSeems Clarence jumped in to help with SPIN and the occasional RINSE.
ReplyDeleteAlthough he often overdid it with the conditioner...
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