That's exactly the problem.... "the goal of tasting is to collect pay per click ad revenue"...
Ten years ago the internet was for porn, now it's for MLM/Affiliate/PPC scams. As long as we put up with companies abusing the Internet as long as they are making a buck, they'll keep doing it. The scams will change, but they'll still be scaming. On 12 Aug 2007 13:41:17 -0000, John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'd like to but I don't know of a practical way to measure the > > impact of domain tasting on my services: how can I do 6 million > > whois lookups to analyse a day's logs to find what proportion of our > > email comes "from" tasty domains? > > Probably not much. Domain tasting requires a registrar who is willing > to handle millions of AGP refunds without charging the registrant, > which effectively rules out anyone who isn't a registrar himself. The > goal of tasting is to collect pay per click ad revenue, which requires > that one have a stable enough identity to have Adsense et al pay you. > Spam these days all comes from zombies with real but irrelevant return > addresses, and the target URLs are more likely to be bought with > stolen credit cards. > > The problems with domain tasting more affect web users, with vast > number of typosquat parking pages flickering in and out of existence. > > The real way to get rid of tasting would be to persuade Google and > Yahoo/Overture to stop paying for clicks on pages with no content > other than ads, but that would be far too reasonable. > > R's, > John > >