Website Willies - When a Bogus Dot-com Bombs your Business

WARNING – your website may be dangerous to your computer’s health! So said my computer screen when I checked out a “competitor’s” website, “39AndHolding.com.”

The site invokes a warning from Trend Micro, my Internet security company, as “confirmed that this website can transmit malicious software or has been involved in online scams or fraud.”

Yipes! Considering the Club 39’s parent site is just four letters away from that dangerous site – 39AndHoldingCLUB.com – I have right to be concerned. It’s common knowledge that when the GP (general public) performs a search, their search terms are not always accurate or even spelled correctly.

With this in mind, I decided to track down the people who claimed this website name long before I decided to unite those of us “of a certain age” around the world, with the 39 and Holding CLUB.

Here a Link, there a Link, everywhere a Link, Link

In roaming around the ‘Net looking for interesting links for active 39ers, I found many “health,” “fitness,” and “how-to-do-practically-anything,” sites, blogs, and organizations—all wonderful topics, with some wonderful and many not-so-terrific representatives.

What didn’t I find? Ways to maintain our fun and active lifestyles after we’ve been deemed “old” by society.

Most of the information I’ve uncovered so far pertains to our physical and physically mental aging process and how to cope or in some claims, slow/stop/reverse the effects. That’s all well and good—so long as you disseminate between what is true for you, and what is not, or simply what is purely bogus.

But my whole premise for the 39 and Holding Club is to treat your ethereal state of mind … that spirit which is the essence of you … not how to oil your creaky hips, or remember everything on the grocery list you “forgot” on the kitchen table.