The Literary Brothel vs Love the Cock

I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another you've been messin' around.

-REO Speedwagon

Though we have about 5 followers on Twitter, one of them is @ShannonAlbert* (you may recall Shannon from this post**) who recently informed us that Jeff Lundquist or whomever bought www.TheLiteraryBrothel.com linked it to a porn site for a brief period of time.***

I was confused by this, as now the www.theliterarybrothel.com goes straight to GoDaddy.com. Today, however, while running our weekly (not really) Google search for "literary brothel" the first result was a bit surprising: www.lovethecock.com

Love the Cock
www.lovethecock.com

Could this be a site for poultry lovers and foodies? Um, no. As porn sites do, "Love the Cock" quickly dispels all mystery with bare description:

"FREE GAY PORN MOVIES & GAY SEX VIDEOS XXX TUBE"

First of all, we had no idea there was an XTube AND a double-X Tube LET ALONE a triple-X Tube. Vin Diesel should be proud.

Second, why would a search for "literary brothel" lead visitors to a gay porn site? The only reason we can come up with is that Jeff Lundquist or someone at National Contact Registry linked us to it. Perhaps they were upset that the third result in a search for "National Contact Registry" finds our subtly titled piece: National Contact Registry Can Suck It.

Or maybe it was an accident?

Maybe we'll never now.

Meanwhile, when Googling "literary brothel," avoid clicking that "I'm feeling lucky" button.

Unless you're ready to see a lot of cock.

Seriously.

-KV

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* Names on Twitter are written with an @ sign before them. This causes mass confusion at first, followed quickly by mass boredom.

** The National Contact Registry is the group who bought the domain www.theliterarybrothel.com when we failed to immediatly renue it, and then illegally continued to post material published material from our site. If you clicked the link up there, then these words you're reading probably seem quite repetitious.

*** Sorry about all the links. And the stars.

Jeff Lundquist Minneapolis Real Estate

by TLB

Remember how someone snatched up our domain name and is now illegally publishing the content of The Literary Brothel?

What are we talking about? And you call yourself a web surfer. You don't remember the classic Brothel pieces National Contact Registry can Suck It or National Contact Registry is Illegally Publishing our Content? Okay, we thought so. Now let's move on.

Apparently the person who is illegally publishing The Literary Brothel is Jeff Lundquist of Minneapolis Real Estate. (Please save all Minnesota jokes until the end.) That means unless we hear otherwise, he's on our "naughty" list.

Now, I know what you're thinking, "Why would a real estate agent in Minneapolis of all god-for-saken places buy up domain names and illegally publish their content?" First, I said save the Minnesota bashing until the end. Second, it doesn't make much sense to us either. Why would a real estate agent in Minnesota of all places want to break countless copyright infringement laws by publishing article after past article of The Literary Brothel?

Beats us. Maybe it's not Jeff Lundquist. Maybe we have the wrong man. Maybe he can still make our "nice" list in time for Christmas. Seeing as we haven't done anything that could be considered "research," we might be jumping to conclusions.

However, we recently got a message from "Shannon" alerting us to her newly created site, National Contact Registry Stole My Site. On it, you'll see links to testimony from a number of people who have all fallen victim to National Contact Registry's nefarious deeds, and they name Jeff Lundquist as the culprit. So for now, he's the man.

Although I have to say, our testimony is TAME compared to the rest. One guy had heart trouble, went in the hospital, let his domain expire, and still couldn't get it back from National Contact Registry. Guess they'd heard one too many, "I had heart failure and accidentally let my domain expire" stories.

Really, people are pissed about this. One guy posted daily updates on his new blog counting the days since National Contact Registry stole his domain. That's persistance.

Apparently it upsets bloggers when you steal their work and publish it without their permission. But now we're banding together. Shannon has done the right thing in creating her website in hopes that this might turn into a nice, civil, class-action lawsuit.

Unless of course, she lets the domain expire and it's bought by National Contact Registry.

Seriously.

-TLB