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For all its good, there are many bad things about the Internet; some dangerous, some merely irritating. One of those latter things is cybersquatting: the practice of snagging a Web site address in the hopes that someone else will buy it from you. An enterprising German cybersquatter has managed to pull this off on a U.K. police outfit, by snagging their former Web site. The only question now is whether it was accidentally or intentionally discarded. The police force is the humorously titled Serious Organized Crime Unit, or SOCA, which was until 2006 known as the National High-Tech Crime Unit, or NHTCU. Many British agencies still link to its former Web site, nhtcu.org, now owned by that German bloke, Uwe Matt. Some are irritated at the supposedly lax practices that let this happen, while for its sake the police force is saying everyone should just be using the new site, soca.gov.uk, and it didn't want the old site anyway.
Given the cost, usually around $15-per-year, and the nature of the site, we think SOCA should have held onto the site just a little longer -- if only to avoid this controversy. Ironically, it's the site's cybersquatting new owner Matt who comes off looking best, as he's gone ahead and put in a link to the SOCA's new site to redirect people to their rightful destination! [From: PC Pro]
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Subscribe to commentsmatySep 7th 2008 6:30AM
"The police force"
SOCA is actually an equivalent agency to the USA's FBI, and I'm pretty certain you guys wouldn't want us refferring to your FBI as "the polic force" when they are, infact, two different agencies within law enforcement.
That said, they'd also have been better getting nhtcu.org.uk instead of the just the .org address. .org.uk is synonymous with UK government agencies. So had they used that address instead of just .org like every other govenment agency is doing (MOD, schools etc all use .org.uk) they wouldn't be in this mess to begin with.