DISQUS

Don't be so quick to shout about it being fake. While the pages look very, very suspect, I got an email from PayPal announcing this application, which would have been very hard to fake. It had my full name (admittedly not hard to find) and a link to http://email1.paypal.co.uk/u.d?FmZyqfnpcUb3zsLl... , which redirects to https://www.paypal-marketing.co.uk/facebook/ . If somebody has hacked PayPal's redirect system, then Facebook apps are the least of our worries.

Also, a WHOIS on www.paypal.com and www.paypal-marketing.co.uk come up more or less the same.

If it is a scam, someone has gone to some monumental effort. I'm more inclined to think that someone at PayPal just screwed up and set off all the wrong alarms on our ends, though.

"I’m not quite sure how long the phonebook has been available" - ages.

But I agree, it is pretty darn useful, and more people should know about it. If everyone actually bothered to add their phone numbers to their profiles, then we would forever be rid of those "I lost my phone while out last night. :( Can I have your numbers plz?" groups.

A TLD is the final part of a domain name, e.g. "com" or "gov", not the whole domain name.

Any kind of domain name block could be circumvented with redirects, anyway, for example with a tinyurl, or another registered domain name.

As for the censorship issue, it's Facebook's site, so they can do what they want, even if this is the first step down that slippery slope of total censorship. It's something we should keep an eye on, though, in case it gets stepped up a notch in the future.