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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
From: Steve Atkins <steve () blighty com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:24:55 -0700
On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Al Iverson wrote:
On 8/15/07, Barry Shein <bzs () world std com> wrote:I am not sure tasting is criminal or fraud.Neither am I, we agree. I meant if there's subsequent criminality or fraud that should be dealt with separately.Dumb question, not necessarily looking to call you or anyone out, but I'm curious: What valid, legitimate, or likely to be used non-criminal reasons are there for domain tasting?
Working out which domains tend to get a lot of traffic, so that you can put profitable content on those that tend to have people stumble across them. This is definitely not criminal. It's certainly a valid, legitimate business approach under the current domain registration model.
Then my next question is, what reasons are there where it'd be wise/useful/non-criminal to do it on a large scale?
It's only likely profitable to do the above if you can amortize your fixed costs over a fair number of profitable domains, and you'll likely need to measure traffic on a large number of domains to find those. (My understanding was that most, if not all, of the "domain tasting" churn was actually done by registrars, either directly or using a "partner" to do the grunt work. That would mean that the costs were offloaded onto the registry. ICBW.) Cheers, Steve
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- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy..., (continued)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Chris L. Morrow (Aug 14)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Mark Andrews (Aug 14)
- Discovering policy Douglas Otis (Aug 15)
- Re: Discovering policy Mark Andrews (Aug 15)
- Re: Discovering policy Douglas Otis (Aug 15)
- Re: Discovering policy Mark Andrews (Aug 15)
- wierd dns thread (Re: Discovering policy) Paul Vixie (Aug 16)
- RE: Discovering policy michael.dillon (Aug 16)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Barry Shein (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Al Iverson (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Steve Atkins (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Andrew Sullivan (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Douglas Otis (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Barry Shein (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Fred Baker (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Douglas Otis (Aug 15)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Bill Stewart (Aug 20)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Tony Finch (Aug 14)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... John C. A. Bambenek (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Chris L. Morrow (Aug 13)
- Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy... Douglas Otis (Aug 13)