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The government has been running an advert on commercial radio about a web site designed to keep kids safe from online paedos. The name of the site is Thinkuknow.co.uk.

Unfortunately, one interested parent heard the "u", typed in "you", and found themselves at a porn site.

So they've banned the advert.

Oops

it crops up an awful lot that! misspelling website addresses. i was trying to find out what was on at the local Odeon, mispelt it and found myself on a porn site, chirst! and lord save anyone who misinterprets HotMail.com!

If you had a extra o to google you end up at a porn site

It's called typosquatting. I wrote a piece for PC Plus about it earlier this month, and discovered that one guy in the US has been sent to jail because he was typosquatting kids' sites with porn sites. Nasty stuff, that.

On the other side of the coin there's some perfectly innocent sites that have not had their names thought through properly, for example:

1. Who Represents is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is www.whorepresents.com

2. Experts Exchange is a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at www.expertsexchange.com

3. Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at www.penisland.net

4. Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at www.therapistfinder.com

5. There's the Italian Power Generator company, www.powergenitalia.com

6. And don't forget the Mole Station Native Nursery in New South Wales, www.molestationnursery.com

7. If y ou're looking for IP computer software, there's always www.ipanywhere.com

8. The First Cumming Methodist Church Web site is www.cummingfirst.com

9. And the designers at Speed of Art await you at their wacky Web site, www.speedofart.com

that was hilarious. could add Pyschotherapist, there's one in there somewhere

Lawrence wrote:that was hilarious. could add Pyschotherapist, there's one in there somewhere

Sounds like a sociopathic clown!

Misanthropy wrote:If you had a extra o to google you end up at a porn site

Did not work for me...

Yeah I think they changed it. It was a while ago when I was at college I wanted to look something up and in my haste typed a extra o and it went to a porn site

MagicAL wrote:

Misanthropy wrote:If you had a extra o to google you end up at a porn site

Did not work for me...

You actually looked that up!!!! Nuff said

Well I can't find thinkyouknow either they must have taken that down too. Just when I had a spare afternoon.....

I think anything that makes fun of somebody's name is an absolute disgrace.

Signed,

Hugh Janus.

I don't get how you can get powergenitalia from italian power generator but the rest were hilarious

power generator=power gen
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italy=italia (in intalian)

equals - powergenitalia....and more power to 'em i say... ouch

abraxus wrote:power generator=power gen
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italy=italia (in intalian)

equals - powergenitalia....and more power to 'em i say... ouch