It has been discovered today that an official site by EA has “bf3beta” on it’s sub-domain, and we all know what that means.
Looking at the domain name “bf3beta.battlefield.com” we are being served with a blank-background web page that only stated “It works!” text.
Usually, a webmaster would be readying for something after setting up a domain, and we can be sure that EA has been finishing up all the beta goodies you need ahead of the anticipated Battlefield 3 release next month.
If you are curious if this is a fake website, you can check with any Whois tool online. Besides, it is a sub-domain to the Battlefield.com site, an official place that has been created by EA.
Previously, DICE through their official Twiter account for Battlefield has responded to a fan question about the beta by stating, “In September, not official date has been confirmed.”
Battlefield 3 out October 25 on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.
dem0
Sep 20. 2011
the “It Works!” page there is normally a default page that you get just after installing apache server on a domain. I’m not sure this has anything to do with how soon the beta will arrive. If there was some kind of login, or something like that, then it would be a different story, but the fact that their build of apache works doesn’t really tell us much at all.
Jon L.
Sep 20. 2011
Agreed. It could even be an incorrectly configured vhost config, such that the “default” vhost is being displayed for the bf3beta subdomain, with no actual vhost container assigned yet…