Advanced Education Development site changes

The Advanced Education Development (AED) site at advancedu.org seems to have undergone revision since the Spokane Spokesman-Review article "Spokane a 'hot spot' for dubious degrees."

Rather than featuring links to Saint Regis, Robertstown, and Apollo on the main page, there's a text crawl in a window above a link to "Liberty Prep" as AED's "featured school." (That's amusing-- it's also featured in the Spokesman-Review article, and seems to be a variant of the Branford Academy, offering that same multiple choice test that would let most pigeons acquire AA degrees as long as someone would foot the bill.)

The text crawl warns customers to stay away from descendants of the Romanian mills closed by the FTC:

AED is not happy with "so called online degree 'experts'":

AED is also not happy with "public forums" (now whatever could they be talking about?):

So who holds the AED domain registration? Well, it's been obscured for advancedu.org. However, for advancedu.net, it looks like this:

Registrant:
Dr Johnson
1414 Monarch
Long Island, NY 10003
Long Island,, NY 10003
US

Registrar: NAMESDIRECT
Domain Name: ADVANCEDU.NET
Created on: 06-OCT-01
Expires on: 06-OCT-05
Last Updated on: 19-SEP-03

Administrative Contact:
Johnson, Dr [email protected]
1414 Monarch
Long Island, NY 10003
Long Island,, NY 10003

US
800 5645567

Technical Contact:
Johnson, Dr [email protected]
1414 Monarch
Long Island, NY 10003
Long Island,, NY 10003
US
800 290 0021

That last 800 290 0021 phone number also appears on the web here:
http://www.aplusnow.com/broker_affiliate.htm. Dixie Randock is associated with APlus Now so it seems that AED is a related enterprise. (I realize this was described/demonstrated in a previous thread a couple of years ago.)

AED stores cookies in visitors computers, and these are used by a web tracker that doesn't ask for a password when queried. Based on the contents of the AED-delivered cookies, one finds that
http://www.web-stat.com/stats.shtml?drandock
can be used to see who has been visiting AED lately.

The following three domains share the IP address 216.171.218.74:

www.Advancedu.net
www.Advancedu.org
www.Payitquik.com.

The domain registration information for payitquik is this:

Registrant:
AEIT
Not Published
MEAD, WA 99021
US
000 000 0000

Domain Name: PAYITQUIK.COM

Administrative Contact:
Lorhan, H [email protected]
Not Published
MEAD, WA 99021
US
000 000 0000

Mead, WA is the home of APlus Now and Payitquik serves up the AED material so it is a related operation.

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