The internet domain name was taken over by an United States-based pornography site operator named Jon David Messner, who reregistered the domain in his name when the original registration lapsed. It is now a link to ItsHappening.com, a website about current events.
Messner used the Arabic translation service at ajeeb.com to read messages left on the site. For five days, people thought that it was still the real Al Qaeda site. After a post on an Islamic message board at 4:30 a.m. on July 20 warned people not to go, the site was taken down.
The site briefly re-appeared on www.news4arab.org, but it was taken down again. The website since had many other sightings as Al-Qaeda kept trying to put it up. The site had been inserted inside of other websites several times, probably with the help of internet utilities.