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Porn Nappers
from the watch-out dept
Business Week has caught up with other news sites and are now posting their own story about porn napping (when a porn site takes over a popular domain name that the owner accidentally let expire). I still don't quite understand the purpose of this on the part of the people running the porn sites. The people who visit are going to be pissed off and will leave immediately. It's not like they'll get much long term business out of it. One visit and that will be it.
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Here's the point
Let's assume I put up a simple MySmallBusiness or MySchoolAlumni page back when that was the thing to do. I even sent out cards with the URL to lots and lots of people.
dot-com went bust, Web fad went the way of the beanie baby. I might as well save the $75 and let the URL lapse. Johnny Porn-boy picks up my URL for $75 and plops down a porn page. I guess I don't care, until the phone starts ringing with irate parents calling to bitch me out for having a porn site disguised as www.MySchool.com. Aw, crap. Guess I better pony up that $75 to get this mess cleaned up. Oops! I have to buy my domain name make from Johnny, who ain't inclined to let it go for the $75 he has into it. To buy it back from Porn-boy is going to cost a cool $500. THAT'S the point!
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Re: Here's the point
Good point. That's what I get for posting late at night after spending many hours on a plane.
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Here's another reason
Some of these porn sites have lots of banners, and most likely do get paid on a per view basis (even if its only a tiny price - why ELSE would they do anything they can to misdirect someone to their sites??). Also, lets face it, there's ALWAYS a small chance that whoever stumbled on the site will peruse further, even join...(I understand spammers use the same logic...piss off millions to get the dozens).
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Not the only ones
Yahoo is also swiping domain names. I had one set up for my granddaughter, she neglected to tell me about a renewal notice and guess who grabbed the name?
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