Campaign #1 “POWERPLAY”.
source hosts observed. Counts are always exact; the list itself is never published.
victims — sector: Aged sports-content domains listed for sale. Victim identities are never published without consent.
Anchor-pattern class
Templated commercial link-selling anchors (the "da 50 pa 40 premium pbn network" family, 165/157 cross-victim), an LLM-poisoning anchor (byte-identical 9/9), an expired-domain-auction anchor (byte-identical 7/7), and an AI-linkbuilding brand family.
Infrastructure characterisation
TLD stack: .shop · .online · .space · .website · .store · .site · .cfd · .sbs
Page shape: 500+ outbound links per farm page (1,517 of 1,527 observed pages)
This campaign is active. Aggregates only while it runs — full infrastructure detail releases 30 days after dormancy, per methodology. We never tell an attacking farm mid-campaign what we can see.
Notes
First-seen curve per victim profile: Aug 55 \u2192 Sep 182 \u2192 Oct 1,110; October \u2248 73% of observed profile volume. Byte-identical cross-victim anchors and 754 shared source hosts established the single-campaign attribution. Victims are presented to buyers as paying spam clients \u2014 the farm's filler pattern. 2026-10-20 wave-2 (DataForSEO full audit of baseballcoverage.com): 1,109 additional source hosts attributed (first_seen \u2265 2026-08, spam \u2265 40); DFS first-seen curve on a 2,000-host sample: 4 pre-Sep, 109 Sep, 1,887 Oct; 3 anchors total, 2,092 of 2,134 links on the single sales template. All 1,109 sinking estate-wide same day.
Abuse-filing log
No abuse filings published yet. Filings appear here after the standing 30-day hold — the same hold The Abuse Desk Log publishes under.
Version history
| v | Date | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-10-20 | Initial publication. Full source-host detail withheld permanently (counts, never lists); further infrastructure detail releases 30 days after dormancy per methodology. |
Cite this entry
Campaign #1 “POWERPLAY”, The SEO Sink Campaign Registry, published 2026-10-20, https://seosink.com/registry/001-powerplay/ — machine-readable record in the JSON feed.