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LordPistachio		2008-02-05 04:45:32 PM

Kiting is a technique used by some rogue registrars to avoid having to pay the fee for using a domain.

And it's illegal.

legion_of_doo		2008-02-05 05:30:31 PM

What's interesting is the Google angle in the story. How much does Google profit from this sort of behavior on the internet? How much ad revenue does Google count from this stuff?

If I were a gambling man (i.e. a Google stock owner at this price), I might be slightly worried.

meshman		2008-02-05 05:32:34 PM

LordPistachio: Kiting is a technique used by some rogue registrars to avoid having to pay the fee for using a domain.

And it's illegal.

Indeed, but the kiting known around fark is based on the act of writing yourself a post dated check from an account with no funds.

And it's illegal.

No Such Agency		2008-02-05 06:25:07 PM

I was expecting "domain tasting" abuses - you know, where you look up a domain, it's available, then like two minutes later it's been registered by squatters?

ZAZ		2008-02-05 06:27:14 PM

I have said in many previous threads: the domain name system is a failed relic of the 1980s and should not be part of the user experience.

T.rex		2008-02-05 06:58:07 PM

my very first greenlit fark article was when Star Wars episode 3 came out, and i noticed the site: http://revengeofthesith.com/

funny thing was, that it was apparently registered years before the lucas film.

the_sidewinder		2008-02-05 07:23:04 PM

ZAZ: I have said in many previous threads: the domain name system is a failed relic of the 1980s and should not be part of the user experience.

I would like to hear what you propose as an alternative.

/Not a troll, I really am interested to know

ZAZ		2008-02-05 08:17:03 PM

I would like to hear what you propose as an alternative.

It has to be something closer to a search engine or AOL keywords. I don't have a detailed concept. In a previous round on this subject somebody mentioned Hari Balakrishnan of MIT as a person who has written on related topics. I didn't track down his papers because I'm not in the web infrastructure business any more and wouldn't really have an impact.

kidsizedcoffin		2008-02-05 08:32:12 PM

No Such Agency: I was expecting "domain tasting" abuses - you know, where you look up a domain, it's available, then like two minutes later it's been registered by squatters?

Supposedly that may be going away, along with the tasting itself.

I_AM_M		2008-02-05 10:51:55 PM

Sounds like Dell has a little sand in it's vagina.

pxlboy		2008-02-06 08:20:10 AM

kidsizedcoffin: No Such Agency: I was expecting "domain tasting" abuses - you know, where you look up a domain, it's available, then like two minutes later it's been registered by squatters?

Supposedly that may be going away, along with the tasting itself.

that would be interesting. the schadenfreude from watching these shady spam-based businesses implode for lack of ad revenue.

gshepnyc		2008-02-06 03:48:59 PM

ZAZ: I would like to hear what you propose as an alternative.

It has to be something closer to a search engine or AOL keywords. I don't have a detailed concept. In a previous round on this subject somebody mentioned Hari Balakrishnan of MIT as a person who has written on related topics. I didn't track down his papers because I'm not in the web infrastructure business any more and wouldn't really have an impact.

I have talked to lots of people about this. It has to be something more closely linked to the whole identity of whatever your content is about. Just like a guy named Joe Smith rarely has a serious problem just because some other guy across town is named Joe Smith because the sum total of their respective identities is more than the two words that make up their name. Your site will still have some kind of numerical identification that is unique but no one will look for you or find you or know you by that.

Domain names are dinosaurs and will go the way of "Butterfield 8..." type phone numbers.

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