Link farms. (was) [ga] Call for Elimination of AGP

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:16 a.m. 28/03/2008, Karl Peters wrote:

> Registrars who can not handle the business should drop out of it, as in 
> any other industry. What makes them special?
It is not only the registrars, but also the Registries that 
derive  benefits from the domain tasting game...
To the extent that when Google succeeds in a crackdown on "linkfarms", 
Verisign suffers from reduced registrations and profitability and has 
people already speculate on their stock valuation.
(Perhaps that is why they have now announced that they will increase fees 
for .com and .net)
The domain tasting game *does* currently result in  actual new paying 
registrations.
If link farms no longer work, there is a lot less use for tasting, apart 
from tasting for scamming purposes.
As you correctly insist on the cleanup of a toll-booth type industry, that 
seeks legitimate profit maximization via any loophole possible, be prepared 
to pay increased fees.
Ross' outburst can be read as a warning.


-joop-