I pray that the media will keep this little girl's abduction as a front page story. It has made me aware of child abduction in a way that I was totally ignorant of before. To all those complaining it is excessive you need to take a reality check. Paris Hilton is excessive not the plight of Madeleine. Her family are to be congratulated for the strength they have shown and for being so pro-active. If she was black, yellow or striped - I don't care. She is a child who needs her mother and father. As a mother, I weep for the parents and those who are bored with the story fill me with loathing for their lack of heart.

Jo, Sydney, Australia

Our thought and prayers are with you.
View www.madeleinemccann.co.uk

Graeme, London,

I couldn't agree more, than Jen Cumbria, on this comment page, Anyone that takes such a sweet child, or any child, from their nest, in my books, are lesser than an animal!
Who in their right minds, could ever do this?
Sick isn't the word! my heart bleeds for Madeleine, and only hope she is reunited with her Family, where she only belongs!!

Charles Linskaill, Edinburgh, UK

To all of you who have negative comments regarding the continued coverage of this childs dissappearance. I wonder if you would be happy, if it was your child who was missing, for the coverage to be discontinued. The parents have to be commended for keeping it in the public domain. I truly hope that she is found alive and well.

rs, weymouth, uk

I think anyone taking a child from their secure home environment or carer for all the wrong reasons or harming a child in any way way should be treat accordingly. Ok, you have to be 100% sure they are guilty first but these children are gifts, innoncent of any offence and precious.They must be protected from these evil perpetrators and allowed to develop in a loving safe environment.I say bring back Capital Punishment in the hope that it will deter anything like this from ever happening again.

jen, Cumbria,

It would be great to think that the massive publicity generated by this case could be used to channel the same amount of funding and publicity into such causes as other lost children, children caught into slavery, child labour , prostituttion ans starvation so that once and for all we could really work at these issues. I hope madelaine is found safe and sound and returned to her faily but lets not forget about all these other poor innocents. It really is a blight that we do so little to help them.

jeannie zelos, aylmerton, norfolk

I just cannot understand it that some people cannot see the difference between this case and most of the others. On this occasion, the family, friends and contacts of The McCanns are using the media as a tool, instead of the other way round. The press, along with their saturation-TV news colleagues, has been suitably kick-started into doing something honourable for a change. How anyone can suggest that the press is manipulating the British people with this story is beyond me! How many planned abductions have not taken place since 3rd May, directly as a result of this publicity?
If it had not been for the "interest" being generated by the relentless background campaign, the media would have gone to sleep a week ago.
Some people complain about all the coverage - too bad! Other people question the amount of coverage given to one case. The latter should do everything that they can to bring these other cases into the limelight, irrespective of whether the missing children are black, white, yellow, brown, rich or poor. They should ask their politicians what they’re doing about this international problem. The worldwide media with all of its communication facilities should be pressurised into putting its morals where it’s mouth is and set up an easily accessible database, covering all of these unfortunate children. If the moaners don’t wish to get involved in these worthy ventures, they can sit and watch Big Brother, soap operas, or even paint drying. These shallow individuals have no right to complain about anything, unless their favourite character gets written out of soap, or the paint that they’re using doesn’t do what it says on the tin.

E J Murray, Kerry, Ireland

How can the ISP's block access to these so called 'cyber squatters' sites if they are doing nothing illegal?

Stuart, Glasgow, Scotland

I believe that cctv cameras at the local railway stations should be checked, also any at airfields to which the rail network provides a link all the way from Portugal to Holland.
I believe that it is possible that Madeleine may have been taken in stages by different individuals from her home via car,train and aeroplane to Holland.

Clive, LANCING, ENGLAND

The need for the McCanns to keep the case in the press has several dark sides. Causing witchhunts which are damaging peoples reputations, destroying Portugal's tourist industry, absorbing the time of 100 detectives, spoiling sporting occasions which are meant to be joyous, sucking up charity donations and scaring families & children.
What will the funds be used for - tracking & terminating alleged paedophiles?
We are really are racist when 1 little blonde girl gets all the attention while 100s of little black girls are dying in Darfur.

William, Dubai, UAE

Portsmouth FC, Nat West, RBS, BP, Shell, Esso, Texaco, Total, Carrefour, McDonalds, Carphone Warehouse, Budget Car Rental, BA, BAA, Vodafone, O2, Telefonica, Banco Santander, Credit Agricole and all the other companies who have jumped on the bandwagon should be ashamed of themselves.

The coverage of this story is turning a tragedy into a circus.

Ed, London,

I keep getting e-mails and blog entries about helping to Find Madeleine and frankly not only it has become annoying but the continued worldwide obsession with this issue can only cause harm to the cause. I'm afraid that all this pressure will not give a way out to whoever comitted the crime apart from the obvious one for a heartless criminal :o(
And what about parents whose children are still missing but the world doesnt seem to care? How do they feel now? This bandwagon, just like every other, has a negative effect on many people who are already grieving and try tosolve their problems.
Things should calm down and let the police do their job with the only help from the public being their tip-offs, hopefully Madeleine will be found safe soon and her family can move on with their lives away from this pseudo-altruistic circus.

Alex, Manchester, UK

The 'cyber squatters' registered their domains somewhere, and even if the registering authority can't un-register them it should be at least possible to break all the forwarding.

Also, can't the relevant ISPs deny access?

Mikey, Bromley, Kent

Here's a potential way to get a story nobody has. One could argue that the "FindMadeline.com" site achieved celebrity status the minute it went up and the typo sites containing ads are cyber-squatting in its real meaning and not just the version of cyber-squatting the press likes to portray at times (investing in general terms as domains).

It costs $1500 to UDRP a name. Would the family win the name? It doesn't matter. A UDRP unmasks privacy protection and reveals the real owner of those names. I'm sure being uncovered in the press would make these people think twice in future.

John, Atlanta, GA

I can only congratulate the British media in their successful manipulation of the people. In this very moment thousands of children in Africa will die of hunger and illnesses and their names will never be printed on T- shirts nor people will wear ribbon bands around their arms as a sign of solidarity, I wonder what would have happened if the little girl were black or their parents poor people from the ghetto? Probably in that case the story would not have sell so well and nobody would ever talk about it.
Unfortunatley, all this manipulation will not bring the poor girl back and the only benefit of it will have certain people whose bank account will increase significantly.
It is a tragedy that despite all technological progress the majority of the people still live in ignorance and do not think with their own minds.
So please give us more action, entertainment , more soap operas, Big Brother and similar programmes and let us forget the reality.

Bess, Uppsala , Sweden

Any person taking advantage of this very sad situation should have charges filed against them and their website shut down.

Kim Righetti, Upland, Calif. USA

This totally boild my blood; that companies as well as individuals could be so dispicable and unscrupulous as to exploit this media campaign.

I sincerely hope they get what's coming to them in the next life; side-by-side with the people who have taken this little girl.

Andrew Robinson, Newcastle,

I pray for Madeleine and all the poor innocent kids in this world.They don't have a chance in this world to be safeanymore. The bad people prey on these kids no matter how safe you think you have them. Now adays they come in the home they suppose to safe at and get them. Let's all come together and help them! Thank God if are saved by the blood of Jesus there's a better place to go one day!!!

Kay, Pink Hill, N.C.

RED CROSS - Please this is a good start to find children all over the world that are missing. It is a great problem.

Paulo Lage Raposo, Montemor, PORTUGAL

I hope Madeleine is found soon, but I feel very uncomfortable about this fund - it appears to exploit this sad situation.

Diane, London,

The more I see of people,the more I like my Dog.
Despicable behaviour.

Michael J Rigby, Blackburn, England

This story has now turned into a form of enforced emotional pollution. Give it a rest. I heard this morning that this story is becoming a national obsession. The obsession is on the part of the media.

We all feel sympathy for the family but there are so many important issues not being discussed in a rational way here. For example, the dangers of young children being left alone. I do not think it is helpful for celebrities to comment on this case without giving a balanced view, Esther Rantzen et al. It has become a horrid form of entertainment even though many people realise it is the parents attempt to deal with the situation.

The silent majority have had enough.

Julie, lancs,

Rather than simply announcing the Times's displeasure and disgust at people cyber squatting, this is a perfect opportunity for The Times to do the right thing and name'n'shame the business's and individuals concerned....

Andrew W, Chester, England

I pray and hope every day Madaleine can be in her mother's arm soon.Very soon.I pray with all my strenght and heart.

Adriana, napoli, italy

Surely from a journalistic point of view, the interesting point here is that there has _not_ (as far as I am aware) been an onslaught of virus-infecting emails with subject lines that appear to refer to Madeleine? I can't remember a similarly high-profile human interest story since the tsunami in 2004 that hasn't been exploited in this way within a matter of hours.

Ian Kemmish, Biggleswade, UK

I hope and pray that this ends well but fear that it will not; the parents must live with their misjudgment I just hope that all those involved in creating this disgusting media circus and manufactured hysteria can live with themselves.

Peaco, Swinton,

If wishes and prayers can help then thats what we send.
Our thoughts are with madeleine and her family hoping that she comes home safe and sound.

please come home safely

anita, grimsby, england

Whoever is squatting on such domain names should be throroughly ashamed of themselves and how on earth they live with themselves I dont know.

Vladimir, london, UK

About time there is a law against this sort of thing. Perhaps the police should investigate anyway!

Richard, Plymouth,

Why doesn't the police call the woman who seen Maddy in Morocco, she seems very positive that she seen Maddy; I don't feel the Portuguese police are doing enough! Why wasn't the car the suspect was driving examined by forensics? I feel so angry that more isn't being done by the police!

Karen Watson, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland

Straun Robertson, a technology lawyer with Pinsent Masons, said: “Each of these bogus websites will generate a small amount of revenue. It it selfish and meanspirtied but there is nothing illegal about it and it would be very diffiult to stop.”

Well, this must be England, where the simplest problems become unsolveable! Why should it be hard to shut down a web site created to deceive people, and how can such a web site collect money other than by the stupid mindless operation of a stupid mindless system? Where else would people bitch and moan so much about such a problem?

Christopher Hobe Morrison, Middletown, Orange County, NY, USA

If this is happening then the people who run these sites deserve all the publicity they can get.
Lets some brave news editor print the names and pictures of these charming people and give them the publicity they want.

martin bowe, bournemouth, uk

New initiatives to keep this story in the public eye, private detectives, psychics, using more british police - whatever it takes to enable the safe return of this innocent little girl.
Let's all pray for a miracle to happen and for once there to be a happy ending to a very tragic story.
There hasn't been many comments about whoever leaving by boat - I just hope the Portuguese police are exploring every avenue.

Karen, North West, England

Does this media frenzy disgust anyone else here besides me?
Rick Z.

Rick Z, harrogate, north yorkshire