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Carl Hendy

Carl Hendy

@carlhendy.com

240 followers 190 following 210 posts

founder: audits.com

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Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 1d

It's become soooooooooo boring 😂

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 1d

“Good morning. The algorithm has spoken.”

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 1d

“First position for organic use to be here, now it’s here.”

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 3d

Just wait till they discover AI.

Reposted by Carl Hendy

Mark Williams-Cook @markwilliamscook.com · 3d

We're hiring for a Digital PR specialist at @withcandour.co.uk. It's hybrid, you'll get a profit share in the agency, private health care, a ton of benefits, as well as *gasps* being treated like an adult 😄 withcandour.co.uk/about/news/d...

Digital PR Specialist job at Candour (Hybrid/Remote, UK)

We’re seeking a confident digital PR professional who has experience creating and pitching campaigns for clients across a range of different sectors.

withcandour.co.uk

Reposted by Carl Hendy

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10d

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 11d

Pretty cool to see Audits.com referenced on the Wikipedia Search Engine Optimization page.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 16d

This is wild! via @sashayanshin.bsky.social ♻️

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 16d

Chump change 🤣

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 17d

It’s okay because it’s only the volume of searches that impact the share price, not quality.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 18d

X a bit late to the party cc @jay.bsky.team

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 22d

PSA: Surprised this even needs saying.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 22d

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Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 22d

I see the Penguin UK website has already redirected the Spy Dog collection to their homepage.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 22d

It does, however, highlight the need for better safeguarding and longer-term contingency planning for domain names within your brand’s portfolio.

Hopefully, the lawyers at Puffin / Penguin Random House UK can reacquire the domain name or have the current registrant take action.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 22d

Anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000+ domain names are deleted or dropped each day, and around 10% are re-registered by “drop-catchers”; essentially bots that target valuable domains based on a range of metrics.

I suspect there was no direct malicious attempt here.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 22d

🔞 In September 2025, it was re-registered under a new registrar (Spaceship, Inc. / Namecheap, Inc) and pointed to new name servers linked to known adult content networks.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 22d

🅿️ Throughout 2023 and 2024, it was parked, meaning it didn’t host a real site, just placeholder or ad pages (as confirmed by Wayback Machine snapshots).

💤 By early 2025, the domain showed “renewal required,” suggesting the holder didn’t renew it.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 22d

🕵‍♂️ The original Spy Dogs website was active until late 2022.

🫴 After expiring, it was picked up in January 2023 by a drop-catcher (a service that automatically registers expired domains).

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 22d

There’s been a lot of false claims about the Spy Dogs website and schools emailing parents.

The site wasn’t hacked, and neither was Penguin - the domain simply expired and was re-registered.

Here’s what actually happened:

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 24d

Brings back the memories.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 24d

There is already enough suffering in the world.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 24d

Back to work!

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 28d

I feel like I should know him.

Carl Hendy @carlhendy.com · 29d