More than 1,500 Web sites that six months ago were shopping bazaars, news portals and travel are now porn sites, reports Websense.
More than 1,500 Web sites that six months ago were shopping bazaars, news portals and travel are now porn sites, reports Websense (www.websense.com) the provider of employee Internet management (EIM) solutions. In addition, during the same period, more than 3,000 Web sites that featured porn now offer mainstream content.
What they say
Harold Kester, Websense chief technology officer, says: ?Our research has shown that expired domain names change ownership daily and can often be recreated as porn sites. It’s critical then for companies to use an employee internet management (EIM) product that reviews Web sites frequently to verify categorisation of Web sites over time. Finding Web sites is one part of the solution. It’s the frequent maintenance of Web
site categorisation that produces a superior database.? Domain name expiration problems have been much publicised in recent years. In fact, last month, Private Media Group, a Spanish-based porn producer, made a bid to buy the failed music-trading Web site napster.com domain name for the purpose of transforming it into a porn site.
