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
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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Not the only ones
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