At 02:42 AM 12/12/2006, Arthur van Dorp wrote: >I don't mind the redemption fee. The only thing I do mind is not >being allowed to opt-out from parked pages when this is what was >promised beforehand. Parked pages are simply annoying. They make the >signal/noise ratio of the web worse, they mislead unexperienced web >users and they annoy customers. To top this, those ads often contain >content which is objectable to some people and now they're even >using pop under ads.
That's too bad. You don't own the domain any more, so you don't decide what's done with it (including delete, resell, park). You had a contract with OpenSRS for use of the domain through the expiration date. After that, it's up to them what they do with it. They're pretty nice and give you the option to renew it for a period of time after it's expired. A number of registrars delete at the end of day zero, forcing you to pay redemption or fight the drop catchers. Putting up with one more park page (with or without popunders) and still getting a grace period is pretty good considering the rest of the options on the market. BTW: I think park pages with no more than one popunder/popup per page are just fine and are a reasonable and legitimate way to convert residual traffic. IF Tucows were forcing visitors into endless loops of pops, content that's not OK for minors, malware downloaders, or anything else that is actually harmful, I'd object - but they aren't doing any of those things. Parking pages are not a bad thing. _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
