“So that everyone is aware, BitchX.[com] is not a trusted domain and nothing coming from that site should be trusted”, Sin announced on BitchX’s official website.

In a reaction to IRC-Junkie, Sin explains the several domains including BitchX.com were all owned by singular individuals to prevent third parties to abuse the domain. Sin explained: “The former owner of the .com became disenchanted with the project and certain persons such as myself taking the initiative to revive the project, website, and other aspects because he was not in control over the core web content nor the FTP sites.”

Initially, the .com domain pointed to the .org domain. “Since he no longer cared about or for the project Mhacker decided to sell the domain or allowed it to expire”, Sin explained.

“It looks like the ultimate intent is to use it as a advertising space or for possible porn sites.  Nothing that comes from that site can or should be trusted” Sin continued. No contact has been made with the current owner of the domain. Generally it is believed people should always download from the original website only as third parties could include unwanted ‘features’ such as ad- and spyware or worse. Sin explains: “The code has not been checked by anyone directly related to the project. Regardless of the state of the code on his site, it should not be trusted as bitchx.org is the primary and only FTP site that assures the source file to be authentic.”

IRC-Junkie made several attempts to contact the owner of the BitchX.com website, but over the course of 5 days have not received a reply.

The BitchX project itself has gotten new life and planning takes place for BitchX 2. The website also made an announcement it is looking for a lead developer for the new project.