Heinz QR code leads customer to porn, or why you should hold on to your domains

Hold on to your URLs even when you don’t think you need them any more; that’s the cautionary lesson Heinz recently learned when a QR code on its bottles recently redirected a German customer to a porn site instead of its own. Heinz ran a promo in Germany from 2012 to 2014 allowing you to order a customized Ketchup bottle by scanning a QR code on the label. As Daniel Korell found out, however, that domain was seized up by a porn site called FunDorado. Just to make sure it wasn’t some sort

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