Amy Hollingsworth writes \”Since 20% of our subscribers are libraries, I thought you might want to post this. It\’s a terrible situation:
people trying to access information on homeschooling will instead be sent to a porn site. It\’s one of those sites that doesn\’t let you escape; it keeps opening multiple windows until the browser or computer crashes.
We appreciate any help you can offer in getting the word out!
Sites that originally linked to Home Education Magazine through home-ed-press.com should now use:
www.home-ed-magazine.com.
Full Relase Follows
Amy Hollingsworth writes \”Since 20% of our subscribers are libraries, I thought you might want to post this. It\’s a terrible situation:
people trying to access information on homeschooling will instead be sent to a porn site. It\’s one of those sites that doesn\’t let you escape; it keeps opening multiple windows until the browser or computer crashes.
We appreciate any help you can offer in getting the word out!
Sites that originally linked to Home Education Magazine through home-ed-press.com should now use:
www.home-ed-magazine.com.
Full Relase Follows
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Amy Hollingsworth, Media Liaison
Home Education Magazine
(540) 786-1856
[email protected]
www.home-ed-magazine.com
Respected Homeschooling Domain Name Now Links to Pornographic Web Site
TONASKET, WA – May 7, 2001— Home Education Magazine is no longer the owner of the home-ed-press.com domain name registered to the magazine since 1996. Online users attempting to access www.home-ed-press.com for educational information and resources will instead be directed to a pornographic web site.
Home Education Magazine, a publication that has supported homeschooling families for 18 years, learned yesterday that a lapse in domain name registration left home-ed-press.com open for purchase. The magazine, a winner of the Parents’ Choice 2000 Recommended Award, has used the domain name to link to its web site and resources for over five years, but an overseas company recently acquired rights to the name–which it now uses to link to a pornographic site.
The publishers and staff of Home Education Magazine are working diligently to alert the Internet community of this abrupt change. “For the past 18 years HEM has worked hard to serve the homeschool community. Homeschoolers everywhere can expect HEM, along with its supporters and readers, to honor this commitment now, as we work through this problem,” says Mark Hegener, who, along with his wife Helen, publishes Home Education Magazine. Volunteers nationwide have undertaken the daunting task of contacting the administrators of thousands of web sites that currently link to home-ed-press.com. Search engine services, such as Google, have also taken deliberate and immediate steps to rectify the situation. Sites that originally linked to Home Education Magazine through home-ed-press.com should now use http://www.home-ed-magazine.com. Specific information on how to help in this effort can be found at http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/badurl.html.
Home Education Magazine is one of the oldest, most respected, and most informative magazines on the subject of homeschooling. Available via subscription, on newsstands, and in public libraries and bookstores, HEM offers interviews, feature articles, regular columns, political commentary and analysis, and news reporting in each issue. Additional information on Home Education Magazine can be found at http://www.home-ed-magazine.com or by contacting [email protected].
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