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Porn Site Operator Turns Over iPhone-Related Domain Names to Apple

Tuesday November 22, 2011 7:17 am PST by Eric Slivka
Earlier this month, we noted that Apple had filed a complaint under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) in an attempt to gain control of several iPhone-related domain names that had been registered by another party and set to forward to a porn site. Most notable among these domain names was iPhone4S.com, the highest-profile domain associated with Apple's new iPhone hardware.


Domain Name Wire now reports that Apple has won control over the domain names in question, as the UDRP case has been terminated following the defendant's agreement to turn the domains over to Apple.
Apple terminated the case after the owner of the domains agreed to turn the domain names over. The whois record for the domains changed to brand protection company MarkMonitor today.
MarkMonitor is the brand protection agency used by Apple and a number of other large companies to anonymously manage such holdings as domain names. As a word of warning to our readers, the domain names in question continue to forward to the porn site at this time, as the site continues to point to the previous owner's DNS server settings and only the various contact information fields for the site are appearing under MarkMonitor at this time.

Of the seven domain names, Apple is only expected to utilize iPhone4S.com, which it will presumably redirect to the company's main iPhone page at some point in the relatively near future. Apple will likely simply shut down the other six domain names while preventing others from using them.

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arn
100 months ago

Thank god for the warning, I almost entered one of the addresses. I could have ended up on a porn site!!:eek:

I could have been damaged for life (or what little I have left of it).

You saved me from a fate worse than death. Well, a fate worse than a hangnail, anyway.:rolleyes: :D


some people don't like browsing porn at work.

arn
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Themaeds
100 months ago
Jeez there goes another one. I hope Apple never designs a product called xhamster phone.
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Shrink
100 months ago

some people don't like browsing porn at work.

arn


Just joking, arn

Sorry if it seemed that I was dumping on the warning. :o
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RobertMartens
100 months ago

Good!

Anytime you get one less link bait/squatter site on the Internet, the better.


One down, a billion to go.
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WMassSoprano
100 months ago

Darn! Now how am I going to get my porn onto my iPhone4S... unfair Apple! :P


Don't worry... I bet there's an app for that ;)
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Flitzy
100 months ago
Good!

Anytime you get one less link bait/squatter site on the Internet, the better.
Rating: 3 Votes
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Fazzy
100 months ago

Jeez there goes another one. I hope apple never designs a product called xhamster phone.


Usually I disagree with Apple throwing their weight around, especially with smaller companies. However, this isn't one of them for obvious reasons
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cire
100 months ago
Darn! Now how am I going to get my porn onto my iPhone4S... unfair Apple! :P
Rating: 2 Votes
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AidenShaw
100 months ago

This may be shocking to some of you, but some people don't like browsing porn at all. But ESPECIALLY when at work or at home when their kids are sitting next to them. There are thousands of reasons why people don't want unexpected porn showing up on their computers.


Your kids are going to stumble onto porn on their own. Better that you set an example by saying "ick" and closing the window with them around.

OMG, my Chumby just spontaneously rebooted itself.... (unrelated to porn, but it honestly just rebooted)


Why is Apple against porn? I thought everyone liked it.


And this may surprise you but some people do like browsing porn. Oh, Wait, Steve was against porn and we all must blindly adhere to his idea of morality!!!


LOL.

Explicit erotic imagery predates the late turtlenecked overlord by millenia, and will probably exist for millenia after his demise.

(I say "probably" because there's a chance that a collision with a large asteroid could destroy all human life on the earth - not because there's a chance that people will stop enjoying explicit erotic imagery.)
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SandynJosh
100 months ago

Thank god for the warning, I almost entered one of the addresses. I could have ended up on a porn site!!:eek:

I could have been damaged for life (or what little I have left of it).

You saved me from a fate worse than death. Well, a fate worse than a hangnail, anyway.:rolleyes: :D


Darn! Now how am I going to get my porn onto my iPhone4S... unfair Apple! :P


To any of us that love apple products, the iDevice ads are pure eye porn. Now if Apple can get Siri to sound more like Barbara Eden...
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