When Orrin Hatch's "Exploring Utah" Web page boasted about his state's natural wonders, he didn't have in mind the photos of bare-breasted women that constituents saw when they clicked on the page's Utah-related search engine.
Hatch spokesman Adam Elggren said the senator's office found out about the errant Web link late Thursday and had it fixed a few hours later. It appears to be the latest case of "porn-napping" — an increasingly common form of cybersquatting where pornographic Web site operators snatch lapsed domain names from other companies.
In this case, Hatch's Web site featured a link to a Utah-related search engine whose registration renewal seems to have slipped through the cracks.
For at least a week and possibly more than a month, anyone clicking on the link from Hatch's site were shown dozens of photos of "Huge natural ...", you know.
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