I remember Barney.com going to a porn site. I also remember the stink when that guy opened Whitehouse.com. I saw someone sitting in a booth in Vegas with a Whitehouse.com banner behind him.
Perhaps it's not for the government to outlaw these kinds of actions, but it's extremely irresponsible on the part of people using those kinds of domain names to drive traffic to porn sites. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find out that a child typed in whitehouse.com, it's logical and most people to this day don't know there's anything BUT .com out there.
If we as an industry policed ourselves a little better, maybe the government wouldn't be getting involved.
Non-adult domains per se sending traffic to porn isn't bad, I even had one in Spanish driving to a site, but you have to draw the line with names that are obviously going to be typed in by children doing their homework or names of popular children's characters. I would be mad as hell if my kid typed in snowwhite.com or something like that and ended up with a pic of a pussy, and I think that most of the parents here would feel the same way.
Of course, KK and others will say that morals have no place in this business, lol
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