Top 20 web sites now safe in .xxx

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Top 20 web sites won’t be “sexsquatted”.

The top 20 most visited web sites (according to Quantcast) are now “safe” from cybersquatting/sexsquatting in the new .xxx domain name.

Earlier this week I ran an analysis and found that two of the top 20 — HuffingtonPost.xxx and WordPress.xxx — had been registered by people other than those companies. Later that same day I ran the Huffington Post story the domain name HuffingtonPost.xxx was transferred to corporate parent AOL.

WordPress.xxx still shows in whois as being owned by someone other than WordPress creator Automattic, Inc. However, I contacted the listed owner and he said that he “handed it over” to WordPress last night.

Further Reading:

  1. Huffington Post Gets Sexsquatted

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Comments

  1. gorih
    December 14th, 2011 | 4:16 pm

    Cybersquatters time does not play, they are looking ahead and thinking

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