I'm quite glad the article mentioned it was a pornographic website.

...i nearly went to try and get a bargain.....

Honest!

Chris

"American girls aged between 3 and 11 own an average of eight Barbie dolls each".

I bet they didn't say how many of those barbie dolls suffer loss of head or limbs by the brothers of said 3 - 11 year olds.

This gives them the marketing oppotunity of a life time, they could produce asian-looking barbies which speak

"Me luv you long time!"

"sukky sukky, only five dollah!"

"Soul daddy too big!"

Any takers?!

Chris, how many do you already own?

One of our hosting customers asked me to change her domain name from one that referenced the word Barbie to a slightly different variation.

I asked her why and apparently they took her to some kind of tribunal and managed to get the domain transferred into their own names.

Bah, the alleged pr0n site seems to be malfunctioning. It has a completely innocent front page with an "Enter" link, which points to a page the server doesn't find.

Does anybody have a working link to the site's real contents? Or is it really completely offline now?

You've just got to love it when an American corporation can appropriate a common name (Barbie) and then prevent anyone else from ever using that name again. It's not like they created a new name for their doll, they used a name that was already in use. That would be like a corporation today making a "Jennifer" doll and then suing anyone who tried to use that name. It's ridiculous.