Apple targets iPhone porn domain squatters

“Apple has taken aim at a number of dot-com domain names featuring the word iPhone that sell pornography,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.

“A total of seven domains featuring hardcore pornography have been targeted by Apple in a new complaint filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization,” Oliver reports. “As noted by Domain Name Wire, all of the sites feature the word iPhone, but perhaps the most troubling is the iphone4s.com website, which features the same name as Apple’s latest handset.”

Oliver reports, “Apple has turned to WIPO before for domain name disputes. This July, the organization ordered that the domain name ipods.com be transferred to Apple, and the website now forwards to Apple’s official iPod page.”

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Lava_Head_UK” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]

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