| Is this connected to Jonathan Bouchard (https://xonaly.com/about-the-founder/) who was connected to some shady crypto investment business? Not sure if same person. https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/02/28/hyperion-ai-int... https://lautorite.qc.ca/grand-public/salle-de-presse/actuali... The search engine itself seems to be written in PHP, the status page (https://xonaly.com/vision/) looks like it is static and has a standard "generated by LLMs" layout and style. None of the status updates are real. It is just javascript animations. They claim their bot has a Xonaly user agent. However this User Agent does not seem to appear in any of the Bot/UA monitoring sites. I am going to call BS on this and say they do not have a bot at all. I searched for something basic and it only gave me to exact hits from Wikipedia and IMDB. Nothing else. On https://xonaly.com/help/ and https://xonaly.com/is-xonaly-legit/ they explain multiple times that it is indeed legit. Why would you need to explain that this project is legit and not a scam. This is a huge red flag to me. It is connected to n0c.com .. does anyone know what that is? It says hosted in Canada but the IP space is registered by RIPE, which is european. Everything about this gives me a weird feeling that this is not a serious project. I think it is all fake ... or maybe simply a lot less what it claims to be. |
> This seems to be connected to Jonathan Bouchard (https://xonaly.com/about-the-founder/) who was connected to some shady crypto investment business.
I looked into it, and I'm not convinced it's the same guy. The Xonaly Jonathan looks much older than the fraud Jonathan.
> It is connected to n0c.com .. does anyone know what that is?
Those are the whitelabel nameservers for his hosting provider, PlanetHoster