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Wow, busted. Appears their DBA was "Yellow Pages United" - hah! Their fake-directory was called "The Business Book" and members also received submission to ht
by aresant 16y ago
Wow, busted.
Appears their DBA was "Yellow Pages United" - hah!
Their fake-directory was called "The Business Book" and members also received submission to https://www.yellowpagesunited.com/ https://www.yellowpagesunited.com/.
Compare that logo to the one at http://www.yp.com http://www.yp.com and you can see the beggining of the problem.
These guys had a true pump model - they're even a testimonial for a high-volume FAX website - http://www.faxcomanywhere.com/customers/united-directories.html http://www.faxcomanywhere.com/customers/united-directories.h... - which you can be sure was used to fax-spam the country.
- milesf 16y agoSome quotes from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Pages "The term YellowPages is not a registered name within the United States and is freely used by many companies." also "In some countries, the familiar "walking fingers" logo is not protected as a trademark and may be used by anyone."
- cookiecaper 16y agoyellowpagesunited.com is down now. Anyone with a mirror of the logo?
- milesf 16y agoTake out the https:// https:// and you're redirected to http://www.bizyellow.com/ http://www.bizyellow.com/
- rmoriz 16y agoWhat's technically interesting: http://www.bizyellow.com/ http://www.bizyellow.com/ looks at first view like a .NET app (.aspx) but after a closer look it's definitly a Ruby on Rails app.