Middle School's Web Site Leads Readers To Porn Page

[matcom]

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STONE MOUNTAIN -- School administrators were shocked to discover that a DeKalb County middle school's Web site included a link to a porn site, Atlanta TV station WSB reported.

Readers using the Stone Mountain Middle School's Web site could find the link on the site's student resources section.

The section includes links to educational sites such as the DeKalb Public Library, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and NASA.

Among the 36 links was a link to a porn site called Black Girl Magazine.

Black Girl Magazine was a legitimate magazine aimed at middle- and high-school girls, according to founder and publisher Kenya Jordana James.

James said it never contained any pornography.

James is a senior at a local high school who has won numerous awards for her magazine.

But she allowed the rights to the domain name to lapse.

Earlier this month, someone on the Caribbean island of Curacao picked up the rights to the name for a porn site.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/9491009/detail.html

[derby378]

1. Moral of the story: KEEP YOUR DOMAINS CURRENT

There is a cottage industry of people just waiting for domain names to lapse so that they can grab them and auction them off to the highest bidder. Damn, I wish I knew how to do that.

[MountainLaurel]

2. That happened to me once

I was checking links on our library's Web site, and a URL that had belonged to a resource for paramedics had been sold to a porn site.

[otherlander]

3. Hey! How many sex-related threads do you plan on starting today?

[matcom]

5. no less than any other day

:P

[Call Me Wesley]

4. That happened to a Sheriff's office in OK once.

There was a new sheriff elected, and the old one let the domain expire which was then used as a placeholder for a porn site. They were pretty upset about it. :)