Supermarket giant shuts Walmart.horse website after joke has bolted
by Alex Hern from Technology | The Guardian on (#9B6N)
Era of free rein over equine internet is no more: cartoonist Jeph Jacques's .horse website goes offline after he is contacted by corporation
The greatest horse-based web domain in history is no more: Walmart.horse has disappeared from the internet following a complaint from the American megastore chain.
Registered in late February by Massachusetts-based cartoonist Jeph Jacques, author of webcomic Questionable Content, Walmart.horse was a simple website containing nothing but a picture of a horse superimposed on top of a Walmart store.
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