{"id":65784,"date":"2025-10-10T12:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/65784\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:22:08","slug":"spy-dog-website-that-sparked-childrens-book-alert-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/65784\/","title":{"rendered":"Spy Dog: Website that sparked children&#8217;s book alert removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Nominet spokesman said: &#8220;We have suspended this website for breaching our terms and conditions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The website did not conduct suitable age verification as required under the Online Safety Act &#8211; and we have advised the domain owner and its registrar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The web address featured in this popular children&#8217;s book series had been allowed to expire by the previous owner and was subsequently purchased by a third party.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is recommended that those using web addresses in prominent locations continue ownership of the domain to avoid issues like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday Puffin Books confirmed the website had once been owned by Cope but had been taken over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, the firm and the author said the sale and distribution of the books had been paused and they had been in contact with retail and educational partners about temporarily removing the books.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It led to schools advising parents to remove the books immediately and bring borrowed copies back to school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Puffin and Cope have been approached for a new comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Nominet spokesman said: &#8220;We have suspended this website for breaching our terms and conditions. &#8220;The website did&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-65784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}