ticompany.ru is the site of a Nizhny Novgorod recruiting agency, Triumph Intellect Company («Триумф Интеллект Компани»), which handled the search for executive staff and specialists[1]. The earliest snapshot of the home page in the web archive is dated 16 December 2004[1]. Later the address passed to an organization from Omsk, and the last saved snapshot, from 2017, shows the domain already carrying doorway pages[2][4].

The agency's site in 2004

The home page of mid-December 2004 was arranged with extreme austerity: a letter-spaced heading — "Р Е К Р У Т И Н Г О В О Е А Г Е Н Т С Т В О Т Р И У М Ф И Н Т Е Л Л Е К Т К О М П А Н И" ("RECRUITING AGENCY TRIUMPH INTELLECT COMPANY"), a single visible section, "About the company," and a contacts block[1]. The agency described its line of work in one line, which appeared both as the page title and in its description for search engines: "professional search and placement of senior and middle management staff and highly qualified specialists"[1].

For contact, the page offered the address tico@sinn.ru and three phone numbers in the Nizhny Novgorod area code 8312 — 33-16-86, 30-55-66, 31-35-93 — of which 30-55-66 was also listed as a phone/fax number[1]. The local tie is also confirmed by the page's service list of keywords, where alongside the words "recruiting," "staff placement," "personnel," "branch," "director," "lead specialist" stands, directly, "nizhny novgorod"[1].

A place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The domain made it onto the lists of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day 2004 census[5]. That said, the agency is not recorded as having received any votes in the contest's results[5], nor does the domain have a position in the Counter.nn.ru rating — in the aggregate data underlying the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating, both figures are zero. Judging by this, the site was a corporate calling card rather than a visited resource: a common state of affairs for corporate pages in the Nizhny Novgorod network of the mid-2000s, where a trace in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet was left not by counters but by the mere fact of appearing on the lists.

The domain moves to Omsk

By 2016 the address ticompany.ru hosted a site with no connection to Nizhny Novgorod: OOO "TradeImportCompany" ("ТрейдИмпортКомпани"), with the subheading "Direct supplies of raw materials for the food industry"[2]. The contacts pointed to Omsk — phone +7 (3812) 338-098, mobile +7 913 633-80-98, email tradeikcompany@gmail.com; a separate line stated that "delivery is free within Omsk and Omsk Oblast"[2]. The company presented itself as an importer of food additives from Europe and Asia and listed its goods: potassium sorbate (E202), sodium benzoate (E211), monosodium glutamate (E621), citric acid (E330), agar-agar (E406)[2]. About itself, as the home page stated, the firm wrote that it was "a major supplier of high-quality ingredients" offering "qualified consultations, low prices"[2]. In the footer stood the developer's signature: "Studio 'Graf' — website creation 2014"[2]. A snapshot from 23 October 2016 repeats the same page unchanged[3].

No trace of the recruiting agency remained on these pages: of the earlier Nizhny Novgorod project, only the domain name survived.

The last snapshot

The last snapshot of the home page is dated 13 September 2017. On it, in place of the site, is a page headed "Welcome!" with a long list of links to subdomains such as diabetazip.ticompany.ru, diabetipif.ticompany.ru, and several dozen more addresses of the same type[4]. Such a spread of machine-generated subdomains on a single topic looks like a sign of a domain that fell into a doorway-page scheme after its previous owner abandoned it.

A check made while compiling this entry found no site at ticompany.ru any longer: the domain does not respond, and it has no page title. Thus, the address's Nizhny Novgorod period was 2004 and the years immediately around it; all that remains of the Triumph Intellect Company agency's site is a snapshot of its home page with three phone numbers in the 8312 area code[1].

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2004 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2016 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2016 (October) (archive)
  4. web.archive.org — Home page, 2017 (archive)
  5. web.archive.org — Voting results of the Day of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet, 2004 (archive)