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   Here's the point

   

   Anonymous Coward, Mar 8th, 2002 @ 6:20am

   
   

   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

   

   Mike (profile), Mar 8th, 2002 @ 7:15am

   
   

   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

   

   thecaptain, Mar 8th, 2002 @ 7:23am

   
   

   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

   

   Lee, Mar 8th, 2002 @ 7:35am

   
   

   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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