Posted by: ApocalypeX
Bungie.net's whois records [...]I think this was done to throw people off the trail of thinking it's associated with Bungie.
Posted by: ApocalypeX
The server it's self is not on the same IP as bungie.net's IP [...]Again, probably to throw people off the trail. However, there's no reason that bungieaerospace.com couldn't be acting as some kind of proxy for something within Bungie.
Posted by: ApocalypeX
Well, aerospace.com is running on an Apache webserver and using PHP [...].IIS is capable of handling PHP scripts (http://php.iis.net/), and I guess it's possible for IIS (or Apache) to modify default headers and report itself as a different kind of server (ie. check the response headers).
Regarding WordPress, while it's true it's designed for use with PHP and MySQL, again, there's no reason why it couldn't have been installed on an IIS server. In fact, Microsoft makes it available through the WPI (which will install PHP and MySQL as dependencies).
Posted by: ApocalypeX
Let's delve down into the basic HTML and CSS of the site. Bungie.net uses absolute links to the file system. aerospace.com doesn't. Anyone who has created a large enough website will know that this becomes a nightmare.Actually, both bungie.net and bungieaerospace.com use links relative to the web root. ie.
From Aerospace's CSS file:url('/images/splash/splashbg.jpg');I'd guess that the only reason there are links like "css/splashpage.css" and "images/splash/enterOverlay.gif" is because they are only used in the one and only spot - the home page - and that they're in the same directory. I don't think this is indicative of anything.
Posted by: ApocalypeX
Then we get to the CSS [...]Again, I don't think this means anything at all. There are declarations in bungie.net's CSS that look like they were written in Visual Studio (default settings), some that are/were dynamically generated, and some that have been written in some other editor (notepad for all we know). Aerospace's CSS looks like it could have been generated in Visual Studio as well, especially when you modify the editor's settings to the Kernighan/Ritchie style (my preferred), but really, all I'm doing is taking stabs in the dark here.
Posted by: ApocalypeX
TL;DR
bungieaerospace.com is fake.I wouldn't jump the gun just yet. Sure, there's evidence to suggest that it's not affiliated with Bungie INC, but then again, there's also evidence pointing in the opposite direction.