Ran across an article at ChurchMarketingSucks.com. (Please don't e-mail me about Sucks).
http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2006/11/church_loses_do.html
Church transfers ISPs, and in the process the ISP decides to sell the website domain name to a PORN WEBSITE! And oh, you just handed out thousands of flyers to kids announcing your Fall Festival, and it now has a website address with Porn on it!
It is times like this that I'm glad I no longer work with eBeliever. To this day, my ears are still burning from being yelled at by pastors or youth guys because of website problems. This must have been chaotic. Thankfully, the problem seems to be resolved, and there are currently no topless dancers available on the church's cyberspace.
It's a shame, though, the church probably had a huge increase in traffic those couple days before the DNS servers repropigated out. Hope they were able to build off of it.
We have a similar problem over at The Living Word. No, our website doesn't link to porn. The Christian Bookstore Association is an organization that supports Christian bookstores around the country. They have a 800 number that a person can call, and an automated phone system routs the call to the closest Christian bookstore to that person. So if Suzie in Topekia, KS is looking for a store, she'll call the 800 number, find a store in Topekia, and get connected to that store immediately. Sounds great in theory.
Evidently if you invert two of the digits, you get a "singles party line" and we have had several instances where guys have called in, and thinking they were looking for available singles in their zip code instead find a Christian bookstore on the other end of the phone. It's funny how quickly heavy breathing stops when they hear the word Christian.
Well, to my knowledge this has happened 4 times in 3 years. I've answered the phone on the first three, but the fourth one - the one that happened within the past week - was a little more awkward. One of my more innocent, quiet employees answered the phone. The guy, looking for love in all the wrong places, started into an inapropriate diatribe. She flips out, and tells the guy that this is a Christian bookstore. Ultimately, though, he does not care and keeps going... at which point she freaks out and hangs up the phone.
Not exactly porn, but I thought it was funny in a sad, demented way. The employee eventually healed, although she doesn't answer the phone anymore.
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