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The Sex.Com Story Continues
wherley writes "This story at news.com tells the tale of the lucrative sex.com domain, the incompetent Verisign transfer per forged request, and the $65 million dollars in damages hanging in the breeze."
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When I was much younger (and I'm 20 now.. :) I did the security for a certain porn sites, and learnt a lot about how they work.
In the end it worked out more profitable to them to just redirect their traffic to the bigger porn sites than to try to deal with the customers themselves.
For every customer you get to do the $5 trial, we would get $20!
When spamming, we would get a hit rate of around 1 in 1000 - so basically if we sent 10k emails, we would get $200.
I only dealt with the security side, and didn't work there for long btw.
Oh man, I know it's a joke, but it's very close to the real thing. I work for a domain reseller/hosting company and we currently get our domains through opensrs at reseller prices. Before opensrs we were using verisign, they charged us the typical $35 a year, and they ache every time we transfer a domain. They first called us and asked us pretty please to stop transfering domains. We basically laughed at them and told them we'd transfer back as soon as they could offer a cheaper price. I mean, it's a pretty simple service. Then came the shirts. They sent us a t-shirt for most of our domains that hadn't been transfered. We got some hemp ones, ones we didn't know or care we had. I'd much rather have a verisign shirt I can jog in and thrash instead of e-xxxcentral.com or whatever russian bride domain we might have registered over the years. And then the other day I call from Verisign *VIP* services. And the person reading the script said that we were valuble to the company. I tried to get them to voicemail because my boss didn't want to talk to them.