on 12/12/06 11:18 AM, Russ Goodwin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. This may be true with respect to legalities. However, imo, depending on how those domains are treated, it is a potential recipe for poor customer relations. > > 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. We all have our own standards and pain thresholds. As a web viewer/surfer/addict, I find pop unders irritating and cheesy. > 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. I have a different opinion, Russ. I have unwittingly been to probably three or four thousand parked pages over the last few years. I can't think of one time where i found the information on those pages useful to me. I find them to be of no use to me, and to be annoying. I imagine that many others have the same experience. josh _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
