The city last week began receiving complaints from citizens who were visiting the city's old website.

SPRINGFIELD — The city of Springfield’s former website has been taken over by some questionable content.

Last week the city began receiving complaints from citizens who were visiting the city’s old website.

“Our main website is springfield.fl.gov, and if the citizens go to (the old website), it now goes to a porno site,” Mayor Ralph Hammond said.

Hammond said the city apparently let the domain name expire, and the site now contains Japanese pornography.

“We have no control over that,” Hammond said. “We’re getting accused of placing that site out there, but the city of Springfield has nothing to do with it."

Springfield switched its website to a .gov domain from .org about three years ago. The city’s IT department now is seeking to buy back the domain and any domains names similar to the city’s current springfield.fl.gov website.

Hammond said the city will keep its .gov website and will have a year to buy back the old domain.

“It’s quite embarrassing,” Hammond said. “I had one gentleman call and say, ‘I’m not voting for you anymore because you got porn on the city website.’ ”

Hammond emphasized the city’s official website is springfield.fl.gov, and residents should not go to the old website for city-related business. As of Tuesday morning, the city’s website was temporarily offline for maintenance.