No, ASK Now is Not in the Porn Business

We received a call to our 1-800 number yesterday from a client who was kind enough to let us know that our site was linking to a porn site.

Seems like one of the news links on our links page had changed into a porn site. Used to be koreannewsnow or something similar, but, if you click it, you get some porn.

Quick explanation on how that would happen: a domain name (ex. asknow.ca is registered for a certain period of time. After that, it expires and can be bought by someone else if the original owner does not renew.

So, what some less than decent business operators do is wait for sites to expire, buy, and point to there own porn sites, so whenever someone clicks on the old link, they show up to a site they did not intend on visiting.

Here is the message we received from our answering service:

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Fri 27-Oct-06 11:33p
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TO:| |
FR:|Jonathan N. |
ANI OR CALLBACK NUMBER :|555-555-5555|
RE:|on yourwebsite in Helpful news in
Korea.In page Korean News .new.on
korean.com when you go to this web
site he gets porn |
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Message History Account: 2222
Taken: Fri 27-Oct-2006 11:33p SSO
Serial#: 2
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So, you can see why when Stacey got this message, she called me in Korea right away.

Haha!

Jonathan, thanks for checking out the site and sorry about the confusion! Forgive us! Enjoy your trip to Korea in December.

Jason