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TL;DR : .feedback registry is creating domains using major company names to collect feedback, then charging for access to customer request or $600 to take the website down.
http://everythingsysadmin.com/2017/06/the-feedback-scam.html
Do you have feedback you'd like to give to Google, Facebook, StackOverflow, Inc., or Gandi? Now there's a website that will collect that feedback. Or... not.
There is a new TLD called ".feedback". It is a scam and ICANN should be ashamed of approving it.
The people that run .feedback have pre-registered "for free" 5,000 major companies. As a result you can go to sites like http://www.google.feedback/ and http://www.gandi.feedback/ and http://www.stackoverflow.feedback/ and more.
These websites enables people to send feedback about your company and products.
Will the company ever receive the feedback? Unlikely.
The company probably doesn't know the site exists.
If they do discover it, they are given a choice: Pay $20/month to receive the feedback, or pay $600/year to take the web site down. Of course, there is a free option: Just let the site remain and suffer as people send their feedback and feel ignored.
http://everythingsysadmin.com/2017/06/the-feedback-scam.html
Do you have feedback you'd like to give to Google, Facebook, StackOverflow, Inc., or Gandi? Now there's a website that will collect that feedback. Or... not.
There is a new TLD called ".feedback". It is a scam and ICANN should be ashamed of approving it.
The people that run .feedback have pre-registered "for free" 5,000 major companies. As a result you can go to sites like http://www.google.feedback/ and http://www.gandi.feedback/ and http://www.stackoverflow.feedback/ and more.
These websites enables people to send feedback about your company and products.
Will the company ever receive the feedback? Unlikely.
The company probably doesn't know the site exists.
If they do discover it, they are given a choice: Pay $20/month to receive the feedback, or pay $600/year to take the web site down. Of course, there is a free option: Just let the site remain and suffer as people send their feedback and feel ignored.