chuckmalani Posted September 17, 2003 Posted September 17, 2003 hey all- i dont know if this is the correct forum, but it sounds sort of like security. i have a disturbing story... i was going to approach a local catering company who had done my wedding if they wanted to upgrade their website. they originally had a plain 1-pager w/ some info, thats it. i wanted to try and get them into something more informational. anyways, fast fwd about 2 months, and i went to their site today to get the email to find out if they were interested. turns out they had already contacted another company to get a larger website. i was interested to see what company they used, so i click on the "designed by blahblah.com" link. well.... it took me to a very very explicit porno site. i called the caterers and all and let them know. turns out it looks like the designers website is "blah-blah.com" and the porno company is "blahblah.com". so i checked out both sites... the porno company had mimicked the ENTIRE STRUCTURE of the website. for example, the website company has about 15 links from the homepage, all to unique page names, like WebContract.html. the porno company has the exact same page name, and its all the same porno. completly amazing how much trash is out on the web. im really disturbed by seeing this, and if it wasnt for the typo in the site, the website company may never have seen that or known about it. so, i would recommend to all that read this to check out alternate spellings of your domain, and if you have something you want to keep wholesome, pony up the $9 for godaddy and hook up the alternate spellings. i just told my wife about it and she made me buy all the .net, .org and hyphenated combinations of our company website.... chuck Quote
Head Guru Posted September 17, 2003 Posted September 17, 2003 You could pony up the $10.95 and keep the registrations right here at TotalChoice Quote
jslagle Posted September 18, 2003 Posted September 18, 2003 OR, you could pay Verisign $35 a year for EXACTLY what Bill sells for $10.95 Thumbs Up Rock Sign I'm a reseller and one of my clients has 14 domain names registered, including variations of the company name, the .org and .net of the main name and several of the 4 letter word combinations. Quote
SEO Posted September 18, 2003 Posted September 18, 2003 Chuck: Not to play the devil's advocate but this looks a little suspicious to me. A 'trick' by some web designers is to place links from client's sites to other clients and this may be in play here. A rather sly tactic I might add but it would 'look' innocent and be affective. Three reasons why I say this: 1. It happens. 2. How many web designers would 'accidentally' misspell their own link? 3. The sites being identical may be because the same person designed both. I am curious to look at it further. Could you PM the site's URLs. Thank you. so, i would recommend to all that read this to check out alternate spellings of your domain, and if you have something you want to keep wholesome, pony up the $9 for godaddy and hook up the alternate spellings. Most definitely, a wise and prudent course of action for all! Quote
DarqFlare Posted September 19, 2003 Posted September 19, 2003 Well, one argument to purchase all "like" domains is so that the end-user who typos a lot is directed to your site and not a I AM A SPAMMER site. If they typod and didn't realize it, you probably lost them as a customer because they probably thought you did something, lol... Quote
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