That is what he said. He is talking about one website.
Are you dense? Did you even read that post? Are you perhaps suffering from some sort of severe mental handicap that has reduced you to a blabbering fool with the cognitive capabilities of a sack of potatoes, or are you being intentionally obtuse? He cannot access <ANY> website from a google search. It says it right there, in the passage you quoted, and which I quoted and used larger text to emphasize in the post immediate before yours. It doesn't say he cannot access a single website, it says they cannot access "ANY" website through google search, because they all redirect them to a defunct URL. You seem to be under the impression that the problem is that that URL isn't loading. It's not. The problem is that they are being redirected
at all. Whether that URL they are being directed to is no longer being paid for has nothing to do with their problem.
Perhaps I ought to describe how google search works? It's really quite useful, see you enter these things called queries and then it lists a bunch of results.
How are those results shown to you? as Links of course. Each link naturally being a single result. Now you'll notice something about the links: they don't all link to the same site. For example search google for "Coca Cola" or "Linux" and you'll find the results from a wide variety of locations.
naturally, one would expect that clicking on these links sends you to the site described by the result, but in cases such as the OP's, they are being redirected to another site. for every link. This is not a DNS problem. Again,
where this site is doesn't matter. What is important is they are being redirected.
Let me reiterate, for the 5th or 6th time; the actual URL they are being redirected to
is of no relevance at all. The problem is CLIENT-SIDE with <their> machine.
How do I know this? easy. Well, what I did was I went to google search myself, and searched for something. Now, when I click on a link in the results(remember before, I noted that results are shown as a list, with links to each result), it doesn't direct me to the defunct URL that the OP described. I assume that it didn't for you, if you were able to restrain your excitement over using a online whois tool for a few extra moments. Therefore, the problem is with
their machine And the only time I've ever seen or heard of google searches being redirected is in the case of malware. I'm not sure what you think it is but the least relevant posts in this thread are all yours and jabber on about DNS, and how the url they are redirected to doesn't exist, as if that somehow makes their problem disappear, or is even relevant to the actual issue, which is that they are being redirected to another location when they click on a search result link.
