The Dark Side of Domain Ownership: Murder Requests and Satirical Websites

The business didn’t take off, but Bob kept the domain with the goal of selling it.

Much to his surprise, Bob received e-mails not from domain buyers, but from service requesters who wanted to… order a murder.

Although most of the e-mailers were aware of the satirical nature of the page, some assassination applications revealed a great deal of private information about the intended targets.

After the first three lives saved, Bob made the site blatantly satirical, but even that didn’t prove to be enough of a deterrent to some people’s requests to fulfill their malicious desires.

The first “customer” reported by the domain owner was a woman from Canada who wanted to kill her relatives in England because they had “cheated her out of her inheritance”.

Read the whole article in the online magazine “Klik”.

2023-08-03 21:05:55
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