Monitor Renew Dates On Domain Names
10th July 2006
Funny storry about what can happen if you dont keep up with your domain name registration:
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.
School officials said they immediately removed the link from the school’s Web site when the television station alerted them to the problem.
“In the future we will monitor (the Web site) a lot closer,” DeKalb County School District spokesman Dale Davis said in a statement.