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http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17784229
The owner of a notorious "revenge porn" blog has closed the website, selling its domain to an anti-bullying group.
IsAnyoneUp.com had been encouraging people to send in intimate pictures of ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends for more than a year.
The site's owner Hunter Moore said the decision to close was made to "to stand up for under-age bullying".
New owner Bullyville.com said: "IsAnyoneUp.com served no public good. That is why it is offline."
In an interview with ABC's Nightline, Bullyville's founder James McGibney added: "No doubt, [Moore] was the No.1 internet bully out there and we took him down... not a hostile takeover but in a politically correct way."
It is unclear how much, if anything, the domain changed hands for.
The site, which featured pictures of men and women in many countries across the world, including the UK, would publish the unwilling subject's full name and link to social networking profiles.
During its time online, Mr Moore's site attracted more than 300,000 hits a day - earning him up to $20,000 every month from advertising revenues.
Subjects, whose pictures were published without their permission, were often ridiculed, with many forced to shut down their various social networking profiles.
The owner of a notorious "revenge porn" blog has closed the website, selling its domain to an anti-bullying group.
IsAnyoneUp.com had been encouraging people to send in intimate pictures of ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriends for more than a year.
The site's owner Hunter Moore said the decision to close was made to "to stand up for under-age bullying".
New owner Bullyville.com said: "IsAnyoneUp.com served no public good. That is why it is offline."
In an interview with ABC's Nightline, Bullyville's founder James McGibney added: "No doubt, [Moore] was the No.1 internet bully out there and we took him down... not a hostile takeover but in a politically correct way."
It is unclear how much, if anything, the domain changed hands for.
The site, which featured pictures of men and women in many countries across the world, including the UK, would publish the unwilling subject's full name and link to social networking profiles.
During its time online, Mr Moore's site attracted more than 300,000 hits a day - earning him up to $20,000 every month from advertising revenues.
Subjects, whose pictures were published without their permission, were often ridiculed, with many forced to shut down their various social networking profiles.