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Where do you report hijacked Yahoo directory listed domains?

         

rfgdxm1

11:20 pm on Mar 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I just as an ODP editor squished a listing for a hijacked domain after someone reported this to me. I noticed that this domain also has a free listing in the Yahoo directory in a high PageRank category. Where do I report this to Yahoo?

Tim

12:50 am on Mar 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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url-supportatyahoo-inc.com

or

[docs.yahoo.com...]

Thanks for the help,
Tim

rfgdxm1

2:04 am on Mar 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Report submitted. Looks like someone actually bought the domain from the old owner based on the fact it had really high Google PageRank listings (a juicy PR6 at both Yahoo and the ODP, and in cats with very few listed sites), and then replaced it with a site that was nothing but a hotel directory with paid links. Apparently a fellow ODP editor tipped me off to the situation so I could squish the listing. I just thought I'd pass on the tip to Yahoo. ;)

(I really, really detest these kinds of tricks that scammers use. I actually added this site a couple years ago at the ODP. If it weren't for the fact that archive.org shows there was a legit site at that domain when I added it, if some meta had spotted this first I could have been in deep doo-doo.)