Porn Site technique used to promote OOXML http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49321/porn-site-technique-used-to-promote-ooxml Posts in the discussion thread "Porn Site technique used to promote OOXML" - OOXML supporters anonymously registered a domain similar to the Document Freedom Day domain in order to, much like many Porn sites, exploit user confusion and to fool visitors into their site. http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49321#post-132257 Porn Site technique used to promote OOXML http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49321/porn-site-technique-used-to-promote-ooxml#post-132257 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:49:53 +0000 RuiSeabra 27320 In March 26, 2008, was celebrated around the world the first Document Freedom Day (http://www.documentfreedom.org/). Notice the site's name: Document Freedom dot org.

While refusing all around the world to participate in a celebration towards the promotion and usage of open standards, Microsoft even goes to the point of issuing a press release in Portugal against ANSOL's Document Freedom Day announcement.

Meanwhile, anonymous supporters of OOXML use Domains by Proxy registar in order to register a site with a very similar address of Document Freedom Day's. The OOXML support site is Document Freedom Day **dot com** and redirects to a well known astroturf site which pretends to be a community of OOXML supporters.

This technique is a redirection scam which, according to the explanation given by the Online Internet Institute, takes place

  • when you go to one URL and are automatically transferred to another URL. It further explains that it
  • doesn't always send you to a porn or gambling site and that
  • it could be a scam to lure you to places you had never intended to go.

Which is clearly the case here: to confuse users who expect to check out the Document Freedom Day event page, and lure them into their own OOXML astroturf site.

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