Wednesday, October 06, 2004

Hijacker

From Boing Boing:
Unintended consequences of Cheney's dot-com v dot-org debate goof:
During last night's vice presidential debate, Dick Cheney advised viewers interested in his version of the facts about Halliburton to visit factcheck.com. Evidently, he meant to direct them to factcheck dot ORG, a site run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, but mis-spoke. Factcheck dot COM redirects you to GeorgeSoros.com which contains arguments on 'why we must not re-elect President George Bush.' Whups.


This is why we need to have more stictly controled TLDs, or educate people more on their use. I hate that people are tricked every day by mis-spelling or otherwise screwing up web site addresses. If you accidentally mail something to the wrong place, it doesn't end up getting entirely different, or misleading information.

I'll have to think of a plan for this...

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