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Smurf Forum » Smurf Valley is now a porn site !!!
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Icon 9 posted 12-21-2002 09:10 AM      Profile for Thewebs   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote  Post A Reply
Hi all, I have just discovered that smurfvalley has now become an adult orientated site (porn) !!!!
As you can imagine I am not at all happy as there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. This is of course due to the action IMPS has taken recently. What I believe has happened is the domain name has been registered for this purpose as it used to generate high numbers of visitors (and by the looks of it still is as it is still showing on search engines).
So instead of protecting the smurf character which is why I had to stop using the domain name, the smurf name is now being associated with adult content, not at all suitable for children.

I will be contacting IMPS immediately to see if there is anything they can do, in the mean time if anybody has not updated their links to smurf valley / blue imps PLEASE do so. Also I suggest that if anyone else discovers this has happened elsewhere please let us or IMPS know about it immediately. Here is the IMPS email - business@smurf.com / imps@smurf.com


Unless IMPS wish to register every domain name that they have stopped us using this could be a real problem due to the high web traffic generated, smurfvalley had only become available a few days ago.

Also just to explain how popular the smurf etc domain names are, I was offered www.smurfs.net last week for $630 !!

A very unhappy smurfer.

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Icon 13 posted 12-21-2002 11:32 AM      Profile for Papa Smurf   Author's Homepage  Papa Smurf's Figurine Checklist  Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post   Reply With Quote  Post A Reply
My condolences, Rachel. Hopefully the new owners of smurfvalley will eventually do the right thing.

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Hi Papa, Thanks for the support.
I just can't believe that people can be that unscrouplous, knowing that many children will visit a site with a name like this. I was told by IMPS that I had to provide written confirmation that I no longer owned the domain name. Surely, unless they are prepared to register all these domain names they are going to find this happening again and again.

I actually discovered this earlier today and within a couple of hours my brother also phoned to let me know as he had clicked on an old link he had seen.

I have already contacted IMPS but I'm not sure whether there is actually much they can do.

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Who was webmaster of Smurf Valley?
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Hi Tim, I was the webmaster of Smurf Valley. I had to change the name to Blue Imps as IMPS requested that I did not use the word smurf in the domain name.
Now unfortunately this has happened.

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Hi Guys,
IMPS have responded to my email and are taking the matter very seriously so we will have to wait and see if anything is done.

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