I'd appreciate some help from all of you with this issue.

I registered a domain and designed a website for a client. All went well, except that some time later, his clients complained to him. It turns out that if you mistype the domain - and this is a very common misspelling - you get a page with explicit adult content. It is surprising, since neither the words in the domain nor the misspelling are related to adult content in any way.

I suppose we can change our domain and check all possible misspellings, but is there anything else we can do? Shouldn't this adult site be in some way marked or programmed so that if your browser is set to filter explicit content the site won't show?

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what was the domain name? If it's a registered domain, than maybe you can buy it from the owner? If they don't want to sell, than maybe you can change your domain...

Seems to me like you left a gap in your marketing. . somebody else simply filled it.

you ask
"Shouldn't this adult site be in some way marked or programmed so that if your browser is set to filter explicit content the site won't show? "

It is their web site. I expect they feel they can decide what they do themselves.

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had the same problem with a domain of mine webmax

Actually, was rather embarrassing webmax.

Had a relative (my dads sister) search for a site of mine, and ended up on a pr0n site. It happens. Not much you can do that i'm aware of other than the usual...

Keep promoting your site, trademark and copywrite where you can...

And if you get an opportunity to do so... fairly... snatch up the problematic domain.

Dave

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Thank you for your input.

It was more than embarrasing. My client went ballistic.

It does not matter how much marketing we do or if we rank number one for a million keywords, if the user mistypes the domain into the navigation bar, he's always going to go to the p0rn site.

My client decided to change both the domain and the legal business name as well, since the business is just starting out. And yes, we checked a bunch of misspellings.

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Problem is that that won't prevent misspellings from being registered and used in the future.

For me, the business is established and changing it really wasn't an option. Eventually, I started showing up at #1 for the term, the other site disappeared.

Another thought if they really don't want to change the original name is set up a DBA under that name, and save it for the future.

Dave

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