One person's "tacky" is another person's classy. I wouldn't ever be so presumptious to assume that everyone agreed (or worse, be *forced* to agree) with my subjective view of the aesthetic appeal of a particular parked page. You don't like the look. Oh well... Somebody else will.
As for the trademark concern, our ad relevancy system is generally smart enough to avoid that obvious trap. That was one of the evaluation criteria, in fact. Thanks for your feedback. Bill Sweetman General Manager, Domain Portfolio Tucows -- Bill Sweetman General Manager, Domain Portfolio Tucows tel 416-538-5429 mobile 416-317-0826 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://about.tucows.com Read my blog. Somebody's got to... http://www.Sweetmantra.com -----Original Message----- From: Paul Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:43:10 To:Domains Gen <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [domains-gen] New Parked Pages :( On Nov 2, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Ken Schafer wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > On Nov 02, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > >> It causes people to make mistakes and change their home page, then >> call support asking what happened. It causes them to spend money on >> support visits to have it fixed. > > OK, I'll bite. :) > > I get that you (and some others on the list) don't like sites with > little or no original content having "bookmark this page" or "make > this your homepage" links, but it is entirely the choice of visitors > to these sites to decide if THEY want to act. > Absolutely, but they make the pages look far more tacky than they need to be, and in doing so gives ammo to the "parking pages are bad" sector. They're of very little use. The appearance of the parking pages looks much better without them. They smack of desperation and should have died out with geocities pages. The higher quality parking pages (ones that are easily mistaken for content-filled) do NOT have them. One other thing - the "related links" should be optional on a per- domain basis, because if you have a domain name "mostdeliciousapples.com" you can guess what product will stat appearing, turning an innocent domain into a TM lawyers wet dream. _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
