Yahoo! awards site, blocks it, then forgives, then gets blocked. What a LOL

Is this a case of biting the hands that feed you? Well no. It’s the complete opposite.

Netdisaster, an ultra popular site that allows you to defame snapshots of any website on the Internet garnered a Yahoo! award in 2005 for innovation. Today, Netdisaster blocks the very awarding body that gave it praise three years ago. And this comes from a bout with Yahoo! itself having flagged Netdisaster as a potential Phishing site.

Yahoo! is now blocked from Netdisaster: « I’m not sure you have the authority to use this kind of site using yahoo logo and form so I suggest you keep this site blocked from the innovation mechanism. »
Of course, everyone sees the surreal part of it: Yahoo!, the very site that rewards Netdisaster on the one hand, asks to be blocked from Netdisaster on the other hand… [Netdisaster]

Can you blame Yahoo!? Well maybe not. It sure does look like all the components for phishing are present – entering a URL and the possibility of it being masked, and a “social” way to share these disaster. But this is also what happens to big companies that become paranoid of the “possibilities” when all Netdisaster ever wanted was a bit of fun on the side.

Dear Yahoo! … why so serious?