From Blogger Support

Just so everyone knows, if you have a blogger blog, you're site name is being hijacked by a religious nut-case website. I'm not kidding. Some ass-sniffing Jesus freaks at blogPsot.com (note the misspelling) have EVERY Blogger blog address filtered into their domain. So, if someone misspells "blogspot" as "blogpsot" people won't find your blog. They will find an absolutely ridiculous holy-roller-the-end-is-near-fear-God-or-he'll-smite-you-with-His-eternal-love crapsite.

You can hear some of the best reports about this crap at Christine's Blog and Doyle's Blog.

Until then, let's read the complaint letter I sent to Blogger support's dreadful help page. I say dreadful because if you use their help page you get an automated response that spiders keywords from your complaint and links you to help topics that are completely unrelated to your inquiry. This forces you to e-mail them back and yell at them, which in turn, makes them tell you to fuck off. Just use support@blogger.com from now on if you folks want to complain. That way you'll probably get a real response first. Anyway...

My original complaint reads...

From: andy martello

Subject: Re: [#279329]

All Blogger blogs are being hijacked byblogPsot.com

Virtually every blog in the Blogger roster is having their name absorbed by the religious zealots at blogpsot.com (notice the misspelling).That way, anyone who accidentally misspells blogspot will end up heading to these religious site instead of the correct blog.

What's worse is that now it is very likely that the religious site is more likely to come up in the searches thanks to the attachment to the Blogger names. My blog is as necessary for my business as my main website. Both sites feature my name and now that name is being associated with a site I have no real connection to at all. If this blogPsot were a porn site my business would be rather compromised.

This also reflects badly on Blogger as now all of your sites are inadvertently associated with this new site. I sincerely hope you do something to rectify this immediately as your business is now threatened as much as everyone associated with Blogger.

There is also a lot of "hijacking" of a Blogger domain if the blog operator deletes his blog. As an example, mooremarjo.blogspot.com used To be a writer's blog. Marjo deleted her blog entirely and someone took the exact domain immediately afterwards and turned it into a sex blog. Marjo Moore is a respected author for magazines and newspapers. She is not,however, a porn author.

Something has to be done about these issues as they actually can adversely affect people's lives, their businesses, and their privacy. This should fall into the category of security with regard to your company and I am hopeful you will fix these problems immediately. Failing to do so makes all of us loyal Blogger users wish we'd have chosen ANY of the other blog servers out there.

Their insightful and helpful reply (after my angry, "Don't bother sending me a useless auto-response. Just fix the damn problem" letter back to them reads...(I use pink for them because their a bunch of pussies!

Hello Andy,Thanks for writing in.

In regard to the sites located at blogpsot.com,please know that we are aware that the person running these sites has registered several misspellings of the blogspot.com domain, so a slight typo in a blog address may take you to one of these sites. Unfortunately,it's just a low trick to get more hits to his site. If you double-check and correct the address, you should be able to view the blog in question normally. We're sorry about any inconvenience.

In regard to the 'hijacking' of blogs that have been deleted, please be aware that once a blog has been deleted, the URL in question is freed up for any other user to take. However, please know that if we find any blog that is violating our policies, we will take action as necessary.

Sincerely,Blogger Support

Well, shuck my corn! You guys sure helped out a plenty!

Goddamn! Doesn't Google and Blogger have enough cash in their accounts to sue the ever-living shit out of this other site for some sort of copyright infringement, theft of intellectual property, or at the very least, just buy their domain name out? Hell, can't they find some clause in the Bible about stealing that they could use in their favor? And as for the domain names being free for anyone to use, that's just ridiculous. They could at least have a waiting period or something before those domains are allowed back into the mix. What a bunch of crap.

I like my blog and I'm happy with Blogger's ease of use, but I don't want to be beholden to this fucking domain just so my well traveled (HA!) and very search engine-visible blog can be stolen by some porn monger. What a bunch of pussies the folks at Blogger are! I HATE MySpace and LiveJournal, but at least for now I don't see those sites being stolen by unscrupulous assholes, nor protected by spineless morons like the ones found at Blogger.

I wonder if they'll see this post and make me a "Blog of Note" NOW?