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Figure 1.
2010 Wayback Machine archive of starwarsweb.net
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The Star Wars one. Clearly branded websites like this are rare, which makes finding them all the much more fun. The Reuters article had two of them (Carson and rastadirect.net), so these were probably manually selected from the full hit dataset, and did not serve specifically as entry points. Most of the websites are quite boring and forgetful as you'd expect.
The subtitle "Beyond The Unknown" may be a reference to the Unknown Regions in the Star Wars fictional universe.
Figure 2.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of iranfootballsource.com
. The third Iranian football on top of the two other published by Reuters: iraniangoalkicks.com and iraniangoals.com! Admittedly, this one is the most generic and less well designed one. But still. They pushed the theme too far!
Figure 3.
2010 Wayback Machine archive of dedrickonline.com
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The German one.
The CIA has had a few Germany espionage scandals in the 2010s:
Figure 4.
2010 Wayback Machine archive of lesummumdelafinance.com
. A French one. Because it mentions VTT (Mountain Biking in French), it must focus France.
Figure 5.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of attivitaestremi.com
. An Italian one about extreme sports.
Figure 6.
2010 Wayback Machine archive of noticiasmusica.net
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The Brazilian one.
Figure 7.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of economicnewsbuzz.com
. The Korean one. Love the kawaii style!
Figure 8.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of snapnewsfront.net
. The Japanese one.
Figure 9.
2010 Wayback Machine archive of philippinenewsonline.net
. The Philippine one one.
Figure 10.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of feedsdemexicoyelmundo.com
. The Mexican one.
Figure 11.
2012 Wayback Machine archive of easytraveleurope.com
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Figure 12.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of tee-shot.net
. One of the many golf-themed sites. Golf appears to be quite popular over in Langley. It's exactly what you'd expect for a mid-level spook to do in their free time!
Figure 13.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of nouvellesetdesrapports.com
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Figure 14.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of pangawana.com
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Figure 15.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of recuerdosdeviajeonline.com
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Figure 16.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of theworld-news.net
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Figure 17.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of kessingerssportsnews.com
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Figure 18.
2011 Wayback Machine archive of negativeaperture.com
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The Reuters websites Updated 2025-02-22 +Created 1970-01-01
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The Reuters article directly reported only two domains in writing:
But by looking at the URLs of the screenshots they provided from other websites we can easily uncover all others that had screenshots, except for the Johnny Carson one, which is just generically named. E.g. the image for the Chinese one is www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/assets/usa-spies-iran/screencap-activegaminginfo.com.jpg?v=192516290922 which leads us to domain activegaminginfo.com.
Also none of those extra ones have any Google hits except for huge domain dumps such has Expired domain trackers, so maybe this counts as little bit of novel public research.
The full list of domains from screenshots is:
This brings up to 8 known domain names with Wayback Machine archives, plus the yet unidentified Johnny Carlson one, see also: Section "Searching for Carson", which is also almost certainly is on Wayback Machine somewhere given that they have a screenshot of it.
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