My Good Name

Remember this?

People online looking for the White House website would plug in whitehouse.com instead of whitehouse.gov.

Many an unsuspecting grade schooler was treated to a splash of porn from the .com site when looking up information on the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

whitehouse.com was an adult and political entertainment website that first came online in 1997. According to a statement on the web, it was originally created by Dan Parisi as a place where uncensored discussion of government policies could occur before adult content was added to make it more profitable. It was created by Willie Cox from Victorville.

Part of the controversy about whitehouse.com was that users wishing to visit the website of the White House (www.whitehouse.gov) could easily go to the adult website instead. Although .gov as a top-level domain is available only to official government sites in the United States, .com is a much more common ending on the web, and is frequently entered by mistake. In addition, many web browsers add ".com" to the end of an address if no suffix is entered, so simply typing "whitehouse" into the address bar would lead one to whitehouse.com. Because of the explicit and commercial content of the site, it was frequently cited as one of the most egregious examples of domain name misuse, up until the domain was sold.

The website whitehouse.org, a humor site that satirizes the U.S. president, remains controversial for similar reasons, although less so because its content is usually much less obscene.

...In 2004 Parisi decided to sell the domain, mainly because of his son who would be in kindergarten the next year. At this point he was making US$1 million annually from the site alone. Parisi had said he did not want to sell the domain name to anyone in the adult entertainment industry, and even claimed to have turned down what was essentially a blank check from a buyer hiding his identity behind his broker.

In November 2005, the domain appeared to be used for a real estate site. In December 2005 it contained only Google ads, with a notice that a site for investigating people by checking their public records would be coming.

In March 2006, whitehouse.com called itself "America's Free Speech Forum". It advertised a cartoon contest and presented links to Associated Press political news stories.

In July 2006, the site was a real estate site again, and forwarded to www.house.com.

As of November 2006, it is a search engine for people, which searches over 90 million White Pages listings and 14 million Yellow Pages listings.

This all leads to the name of my blog.

I discovered this.

FREEDOM EDEN Online Dating???



That image is from a cached page.

Thankfully, the website is no longer active.

freedomeden.com
What you need, when you need it

Hmmm.

I did a search on the site and learned this and this and this.


I am creeped out.

I feel like the whitehouse.com of the blogosphere.