Power to destroy domaining industry

[Dotmainer]

... or to change it

found this one:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070326/20070326005198.html?.v=1


So what do you think ?

 

[accent]

I think that parking domains for income - typos or generic - is not going to be very profitable for much longer. That traffic will be intercepted. Yahoo is involved in the scheme in the article, this is not a small thing.

Happy I did not take the advice of everyone on the old timer's board to buy only .com traffic domains. (That was not skill - I could not find any of the blasted things for sale.)

 

[armstrong]

Intercepting unresolved urls is one thing. Redirecting traffic from suspected malicious sites is another. What if a site is erroneously tagged as malicious? This might expose the ISP to litigation.

 

[Paddy]

Intercepting unresolved urls is one thing. Redirecting traffic from suspected malicious sites is another. What if a site is erroneously tagged as malicious? This might expose the ISP to litigation.

Yes, this would be a sticky issue.

replacing common browsing errors and phishing web sites with Yahoo! paid and algorithmic search results pages

undesired error messages and potentially malicious web sites when they request a non-existent domain (NXD) or mistype a web address

Ok, the malicious sites, fair enough. But does the first statement mean that a name like mortage.com would be trated like "browsing errors and phishing web sites"?

 

[xman]

I'm so glad I don't own any typo domains for trafiic.

 

[Mike]

Typo domains? HA! That's going to be VERY interesting when all typo domains that are owned by Microsoft, Google and Co are being tagged as malicious and are no longer forwarding. I'm sure that MS and G have a few words to say about that. (Unless of course, that there's an exclusion rule existing)
Frankly, the erroneous tags are just adding to the fuel, overall, the regulation of internet usage is getting a bit out of hand.
If ISPs are getting paid when users click on sponsored links i would assume that this will lead to a lot of "reverse click fraud" where pages are suddenly declared as unsafe or squatted, because a word that may be tagged as offensive showed up in the meta tags. What about language restrictions where the same source word is used in english and german, the spelling has just a slight variation?
Who's going to control their actions? Users can set their own preferences? Yeah, unless you're a programmer, webmaster or otherwise internet/software savvy user, there's no way in the world that the normal "Joe Schmo" user is going to set their preferences - for most people the learning curve would be too steep.

This looks like serious over-regulation of the last "free" frontier.

 

[winst]

It is not going to work. If an ISP is going to do this, The ISP is acting as if they are the phisher: hijacking users to unexpected sites. Besides, who's to say the domain name is a typo or not? Google and Macintosh are both "typos" of common names. I remember Network Solutions tried it once: forward non-registered, non-developed domain names to its own sponsored web sites. It created such a backlash that it eventually removed the "feature".

 

[cache]

interesting

 

[Makis.TV]

its so interesting some big co's are trying to grab things without caring of there network.

its more interesting that every time this kinda of stuff happens it make us think new things and evolute to better tactics

and after re reading this one i went and registered some typo for tasting...

i even registered their typo :D

 

[Mike]

i even registered their typo :D

:lol: someone's thinking on his toes! :tu: it's almost too funny that you should generate PPC from a typo of their own name. That goes against everything they stand for,...gotta love it!

 

[Makis.TV]

yeap!!!
typo pride strikes again :D

simplicta.com

is on my taste list....

i also registered some more...

they gave me some new ideas,
i must thank them ....

 

[Premium]

I typos

 

[Dotmainer]

yeap!!!
typo pride strikes again :D

simplicta.com

is on my taste list....

i also registered some more...

they gave me some new ideas,
i must thank them ....

:great: rep added

 

[Ronald Regging]

I actually had this same idea, posted in another thread somewhere, but looking more at ISPs determining what domains are getting heavy traffic that come back as unresolvable (not registered). I think if they used their own info in order to identify and register NXD that were getting traffic, that would be perfectly acceptable. This other stuff is a bunch of crap though, the redirecting aspect.