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Name on the game
Howard Lake | 28 April 1999 | News
Third Sector reports this week on the latest UK charity to experience difficulties over its domain name. Marie Curie Cancer Care’s domain name, which went unspecified in the report, was reportedly bought by a “porn firm” when its registration was not renewed. As a result, Third Sector reported that “internet users accessing marie Curie Cancer Care’s website could come face to face with pornography.”
Third Sector reports this week on the latest UK charity to experience difficulties over its domain name. Marie Curie Cancer Care’s domain name, which went unspecified in the report, was reportedly bought by a “porn firm” when its registration was not renewed. As a result, Third Sector reported that “internet users accessing marie Curie Cancer Care’s website could come face to face with pornography.”
The Register reported that the charity ” lost the domain www.mariecurie.com to the Hardcore Cafe porn site after Network Solutions failed to inform the charity that its renewal was due in
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Read UK Fundraising’s coverage of charity domain names.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.