There seems to be a spate of chemistry sites being taken over by porn sites! I've just been informed of a similar problem with the following link:
It's not really that they've been taken over. Somebody has probably forgotten to pay the annual fee for the domain name and so they've lost ownership. If you notice, both the sites mentioned say things like "This domain name for sale" or "Click here to buy this name" - it means that some Internet name company is trying to make lots of money. The scimedia.com name is available from NameRegister.com for anything over $550 by the looks of it - considering that they probably picked it up for $50 or so, it's a lucrative business. The sex sites bit comes from the fact that the only advertising that pays is for sex sites, so that's what they put on the pages - after all, these old domain names are probably on lots of people's links pages or bookmarks so they are bound to get some traffic. Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pete Biggs :{) pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk pete.biggs@chem.ox.ac.uk Phone: 01865 275490 (Work) 01865 275410 (Fax) pete@biggs.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~veni, vermini, vomui~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)