[At-Large] [NA-Discuss] Gross Deletes

[RJGlass | America@Large]

"Every month fifty million domains appear, sit parked for 4.99 days, then
disappear."
I agree that this is a stability issue.

"Speculators have
argued that all these squats provide a service: they usually have a paid
link to the domain the user actually wanted, and if you land on the squat,
you or your search engine must have made a mistake which they are helping
you rectify for a small fee."
I disagree that this argument is absurd.  They are helping you correct your
typing mistakes, and the fee is not charged to you, but if it is a paid
link, paid by the advertiser, which the owner gets a very small portion.
The more popular the site, the more spelling mistakes will occur.

The webmasters should be the ones to advise the site owner on domain
resolvability issues.  I don't know how many times I've advised people to
get all possible misspellings, and multiple extensions.  Sometimes they do,
sometimes they don't.  But at that point it's a fair game.

-Randy Glass
A at L


On 6/10/07, John L <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>
> > Is it a question of stability, or just someone doing something we don't
> like
> > to see?
>
> I certainly consider it to be a stability issue.  Every month fifty
> million domains appear, sit parked for 4.99 days, then disappear.  Most of
> them are typosquats, misspelling of established domains.  Speculators have
> argued that all these squats provide a service: they usually have a paid
> link to the domain the user actually wanted, and if you land on the squat,
> you or your search engine must have made a mistake which they are helping
> you rectify for a small fee.
>
> I find this argument absurd.  If I want my spelling corrected (which I do,
> being a lousy typist), I want to use a corrector of my choice, triggered
> off an NXDOMAIN response in my browser, not some random speculator.  And,
> of course, the squats are of no help fixing typos in mail and all the
> other Internet services other than the web.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
>



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