The site which pops up when www.familyfirst.co.nz is entered The URL familyfirst.co.nz continues to be redirected to a site supporting marriage equality. A Wellington man going by the pseudonym Hamish Spencer has bought familyfirst.co.nz and set it up to redirect visitors to www.marriageequality.co.nz. "The temptation was to redirect the site to something less suitable for work, (i.e. porn) was very great," he has stated on Facebook. "But in the end I decided to play the upper hand and be civil." Family First is still using its org.nz site and Spencer believes it forgot to renew the .co.nz site. Website addresses are held 90 days after their expiry, and three reminders are sent out, after which they can be sold on to a third party.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Wednesday, 5th September 2012 - 1:11pm