By Allie Martin
April 2, 2002

(AgapePress) - Pornographers have found new ways to get obscene material on the Internet.

It’s called "porn-napping," and it works like this: as soon as an Internet site’s domain name has expired, creators of porn sites buy up the inactive worldwide web address and usually post X-rated material on the site. Of course, the pornography companies offer to sell the sites back to the original owners -- or anyone else -- for an amount far higher than the $20 to $45 it typically costs to renew a domain name registration.

One result of "porn-napping" is that in the last 19 months, the number of web pages with adult content has grown four times as fast as the overall number of web pages, according to Rule Space, a web-filtering company in Portland, Oregon.

Several churches and Christian organizations have found their expired websites purchased by pornographers and replaced with X-rated photographs and links to more illicit material.

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