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YouTube has yanked offline an advert for .xxx domain names which featured two porn stars performing a sexually suggestive act on a hot dog. But the 30-second video, part of ICM Registry's $4.5m ad campaign to promote the launch of the porn-only TLD, was apparently removed from YouTube not because it was too saucy, but because …

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  1. Adze

    +10 points to the writer for getting "yanked off" into the first line!

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  2. Lord Lien
    Coat

    I duno what them loverly ladies were trying to sell.....

    ... but I'll take 2 please.....

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    SPAM?

    it flagged SPAM alerts? I thought that hotdog just contained beef and pork! :-)

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    1. Mediocrates
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      Trollface

      They want you to believe that hotdogs are made of beef and pork

      Hotdogs are actually made of the unmentionable parts of animals with a bit of sawdust thrown in for filler.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    How much?

    > Almost 80,000 companies reluctantly paid $200 or more per domain ...

    Assuming they only have one domain each, that's over 10 million pounds before they even got out of bed.

    Where do I look for sysadmin jobs in the porn sector?

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  5. mhenriday
    Pint

    Surely this article should have been entitled

    «Spam meets silicone» (please note the final «e») in good Reg tradition ?...

    Henri

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  6. Pete the not so great
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    Barking mad

    I bet

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  7. Allan George Dyer
    Coat

    Do the complainer's IP addresses match

    ICM's address range?

    Banning always gives a massive popularity boost...

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  8. Barry Rueger
    Paris Hilton

    Only in Amuuuurica

    What? That's it? THAT's so objectionable that YouTube pulled it?

    My God! It's not like it's Janet Jackson's nipple or something!

    (Paris becuase - well, need you ask?)

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