Educause Security Discussion mailing list archives
Re: .edu.com domain
From: Graham Toal <gtoal () UTPA EDU>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 15:55:12 -0500
I do not know if they actually forward the information, it appears the primary purpose is to harvest information for marketing.
More likely harvest leads to sell back to the Universities. And I would imagine if you don't advertise with them, some rival university will be prominent when someone stumbles on their site looking for you. Here's a good article on their business model: http://www.jayweintraub.com/2005/08/trends_report_a.html G
Current thread:
- .edu.com domain O'Callaghan, Daniel (Apr 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: .edu.com domain Gary Flynn (Apr 05)
- Re: .edu.com domain Steve Worona (Apr 05)
- Re: .edu.com domain Graham Toal (Apr 05)
- Re: .edu.com domain Walter Bourne (Apr 05)
- Re: .edu.com domain Al Arboleda (Apr 05)
- Re: .edu.com domain Pace, Guy (Apr 05)
- Re: .edu.com domain Dave Koontz (Apr 05)
- Re: .edu.com domain David Bruce (Apr 05)
- Re: .edu.com domain Valdis Kletnieks (Apr 05)
- Re: .edu.com domain David Etherton (Apr 06)
- Re: .edu.com domain Steve Worona (Apr 06)
- Re: .edu.com domain Sadler, Connie (Apr 06)
- Re: .edu.com domain Ken Connelly (Apr 06)
(Thread continues...)