What would you do if you logged on to your children’s school website and discovered scantily clad women?
These U.K. parents grew alarmed and caused a wave of concern that led to an apology from their school, which had let the domain lapse and didn’t realize it had been purchased by a domain parking company and replaced with a landing page offering adult websites.
But this is one snafu that probably reveals more about the negligence of the parents than the school: The school switched over their domain name in 2011. It took them three years to notice the porn infiltration on their local school’s site?
Granted, highworthgrammar.co.uk is way easier to remember than highworth.kent.sch.uk, a url I’d probably actively try to forget.
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Who looks at Highworth Grammar School and thinks “oh, yeah, that’d make a great porn domain, let’s snap that up!” None of the women are wearing schoolgirl uniforms. It’s not even a Catholic school. Porn industry, you’re getting more unimaginative all the time.
The school says it’s now attempting to buy back the domain.
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