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islesv	Fri 30th March 2012, 1:28am Post #1
Neophyte Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: Thu 29th Mar 2012, 3:02pm Member No.: 77,251 WP user page - talk check - contribs	I was looking through the earliest version of the Noynoying article and noticed that there was already a link to the noynoying.com site. The article was created on March 18, 2012 12:24 UTC. The domain was registered on March 15, 2012 17:52 UTC, or just two days before. That does not seem right. After some investigation, it seemed to me that the person who created the article was the same person who registered the domain name. Here are the results of my investigations. There was a debate whether to delete or not the article, which ended up in our national dailies and networks here in the Philippines, which made the article topic itself more noteworthy (or not, depending on viewpoint).