I was following the domain drops last week and shuddered when I saw that the domain name kidporn.net was going to auction. As a parent, the notion of someone taking advantage of, victimizing, using, exploiting or otherwise harming children sickens me!

I hoped against hopes that kidporn.net would be acquired by some advocacy group wanting the doman name out of circulation but in my heart I knew that was unlikely and that more likely than not someone would try and capitolize off of this very sick and slimy domain.

I held out some hope that they might not be able to make money from the domain because afterall none of the search engines would have advertisers for that contextual search string. How could they, it would be illegal no?  Sure enough, if you search kid porn on the majors you get results but no sponsored listings, read advertisers.  

The domain has been registered for a week, has been parked and has already been tested on at least 3 pay per click feeds. 

Domain parking companies throw up pages like these and channel the domain's traffic to paying advertisers. In this instance the advertisers linked to the page are not paying for kid porn traffic. They can't be; that traffic is not available through the Yahoo publisher or Google adwords networks. The advertisers listed on these pages likely have no idea they have been associated with this domain. How are they being served being associated with this domain?

Because neither Google or Yahoo have or would allow ads or advertisers for kid porn, and because no self respecting person or entity would want to advertise or associate themselves with child pornography I can see no reason why this domain should be able to be monetized.

Write to Google, write to Yahoo, tell them that domain traffic like this serves no one and ask them to take action to insure that the quality of the traffic they provide to advertisers is ethical and non exploitive.

Write your congressman or local representative and tell them that the Pay per Click industry is in need of regulation. If there was ever evidence to suggest it, the monetization of this domain is it! The traffic is unwanted, untargeted and exploitive and suggests that the engines tapping into it only to feed it off to unsuspecting advertisers are either unwilling or unable to insure the quality of the advertisements their customers are paying for. 

This should not be happening!