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To: Drew68
There must be little demand for porn if the advertisers must resort to spam.

Actually, I think it's more like extortion. Someone buys a useful URL and threatens to make it into a porn site. Those who may want to use the URL must pay to keep the name clean.
21 posted on 12/22/2002 4:03:35 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic
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To: Doctor Stochastic
Actually, I think it's more like extortion. Someone buys a useful URL and threatens to make it into a porn site. Those who may want to use the URL must pay to keep the name clean.

This happened to a friend of mine who had a technical site for his compnay. A squatter waited for his registration to expire, had a bid waiting, then loaded it with porn and told him it would be $1,000 to get it back.

Fortunately, he was a stubborn Scot. The porn is still sitting on his old site, and it can rot there till Hell freezes over.

42 posted on 12/22/2002 4:46:51 PM PST by Gorzaloon
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