{"id":4089,"date":"2021-12-17T10:38:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/meet-the-man-who-accidentally-started-an-assassin-hiring-website\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:38:32","slug":"meet-the-man-who-accidentally-started-an-assassin-hiring-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/meet-the-man-who-accidentally-started-an-assassin-hiring-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He just wanted a catchy website name. Now, Bob Innes hands people over to the police for trying to have their enemies killed<\/p>\n<p>In October 2005, Bob Innes bought the website domain name \u201c<a href=\"mailto:contact@rentahitman.com\">rentahitman.com<\/a>.\u201d It was the dotcom era and he was a business school student in North Carolina trying to advertise website traffic analysis services: the \u201chit\u201d was a nod to clicks coming in on a client\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was simply a play on words,\u201d he says now, when contacted via email for an interview.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/dec\/17\/bob-innes-rent-a-hitman-assassin-services-website\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/903691e01bda273164313478b69df9444596b9d9\/0_765_3320_1990\/master\/3320.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d41f1fd1df9e42b9cfad05786dd564b4\" title=\"Meet the man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website\" \/>He just wanted a catchy website name. Now, Bob Innes hands people over to the police for trying to have their enemies killed<br \/>\nIn October 2005, Bob Innes bought the website domain name \u201crentahitman.com.\u201d It was the dotcom era and he was a business school student in North Carolina trying to advertise website traffic analysis services: the \u201chit\u201d was a nod to clicks coming in on a client\u2019s website.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was simply a play on words,\u201d he says now, when contacted via email for an interview. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He just wanted a catchy website name. Now, Bob Innes hands people over to the police for trying to have their enemies killed In October 2005, Bob Innes bought the website domain name \u201crentahitman.com.\u201d It was the dotcom era and he was a business school student in North Carolina trying to advertise website traffic analysis &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/meet-the-man-who-accidentally-started-an-assassin-hiring-website\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meet the man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}