As long as we’re deleting links left and right, how about taking out the misspelling of “anglefire” that Ace309 posted? It seems to consist of nothing but ads, and while some posters might not get the ones with naked women on them, I did, and so others might also.
Another thing, aside from the typo domains, is the celebrity domains. Type in http://www.(insert your favorite film star, etc).com and sometimes you’ll get either their official page or a fan page. Just as often, you’ll get redirected to some generic porn site. Grrrr. I hate that.
Heck, it doesn’t even have to be a celebrity. I once typed in a NASCAR driver’s name and got crap. Not even a well-known one, just one of the next-to-nobodies I’m a fan of.
I heard that the guy who registered many of those typo-domain sites got busted and has to pay damages. I don’t have a link, but I think it was on Wired. I know I mis-typed Cartoon Network Dot Com once (for my neice) and got a porn site. How sad.
Done. And thank you. I didn’t find anything wrong with it when I checked earlier on myself, but I’ll gladly take your word for it.
OpalCat, I don’t think Xploder is “personally attacking you” per se. He just doesn’t like weaseling, I guess. But to put your mind at ease: the rule about posting porn links has always been in our registration agreement, no matter what changes it went through since conception.
Carry on.
On THAT is just sick. Obviously most of the people who see that one will be kids or parents with kids right there. 
Typing anything but http://whitehouse.gov gets bad results.
I swear I was doing reasearch, teacher!
Once I was at school doing research on the country of Australia for a report. I thought it would be cool to have a picture of a koala bear on the cover.
I think you see where I am going with this.
I did not find “koala bears” on yahoo.
The computer lab supervisor was not impressed and I was thisclose to getting my school internet privleges revoked. Oh what fun that was.
Uh, what was that whooshing sound?
I understand that you were looking for Koala bears and found something else.
Is “koala” some kind of sexual term?
(Oh honey, I’m bored with doggy-style, let’s do it Koala-style!)
Is there some infamous koala bestiality cult that I know nothing about?
What gives?
No Opal I was most emphatically not personally attacking you. I apologize if it came out that way. Coldfire is correct. I absolutely hate weasling and that’s exactly what you seemed to be doing.
heresiarch, as far as I know, there is no weird sexual act or something involving koala bears. What I found was this porn site with a picture of a naked man and a naked woman holding a koala bear.
I really don’t want to know what the point of it was…
I was only 12 at the time and I must say I was quite disturbed by it.
When I was in high school, my school touted how “protected” we were, and how well their screening software worked. Since I didn’t see the need to go to any porn sites, I never really tested it out.
However, one day my friends and I were sitting in the computer lab, and my friend Megan asked me what the search engine site was that I always used. “Altavista,” I replied.
“Okay,” she said. Next thing I hear was the loudest screech EVER coming from across the computer lab. She had spelled Altavista with an e (Altevista) and brought up a really nasty porn site. For a bunch of high school sophomores at an all-girls school, this was a pretty screech-worthy experience. But it was pretty amusing, looking back, at how well the school thought their software worked.
Not weaseling, just explaining. 
I went there (hey, I was bored) and it is now a gambling site called “fairbet”… sigh
Does this crap really work? I mean if you think you’re going to the cartoon network site or a search engine, or whatever, and you end up at porn, are you going to hang out and say “cool! I think I’ll sign up/click banners/beat off”?
oh the betting place… the first words on the site are “Integrity First”
Back when my friend was a Brand-New Internet User, she took her daughter, who (fortunately) was 12-going-on-40, along to the college computer lab to do some research. (Mom was in college, daughter is home-schooled.) They wanted to know about the ancient Greeks. Not familiar with the concept of a search engine, they typed “greeks” in the IE address bar, the autosearch kicked in, and they found themselves at a site devoted to a popular sexual practice of the ancient Greeks. (Hint: NAMBLA needs a time machine.) Oops.
(Coldfire, don’t worry. I checked the URL and it’s now devoted to “Pizza Express,” which “has always supported the Indiana University greek community . . .” Nothing naughty, rated G, etc.)
There’s also the problem that some porno spammers are buying up discarded domain names and using them for porno link pages. I lost the name for my site last year and now anytime anyone tries to use it, they get a porno page.
Bastards.
I know what you mean. Recently, one of the major fan sites for the computer game Drakan was abandoned, and the domain name was taken by someone else. Now the site is just a list of porn links.
Sorry, Coldfire and everyone else. Followed the lead of earlier posters instead of actually thinking. Was a stupid thing to do, and won’t happen again.
When my neices got their computer, I specifically put “Lycos Kids” in their favorite places (in fact, I made it the default homepage)
They have a filtered search for kids that works great. Evidently she was at a friends house and couldn’t remember the site name so they used Google.com to look up “fairies”. She got quite an eyefull and now sticks with the lycos kids search.
http://lycoszone.lycos.com/
Try it! Search for “boobs”- nothing. Search for “cock”- Mother Goose rhymes. Awesome. (search for fairies, get fairies!)
I realize that the problem is when you mistype the addy: When I taught them to use the Internet, they were told never to type an address in- always search it through Lycos, then bookmark it for later. So far, so good! Too bad you have to be so careful. There are a lot of freaks out there.
Zette