On 2012-05-26 9:23 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Fernando Cassia<[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Rob Weir<[email protected]> wrote:
Of course, the easy decision is simply to say "yes" to everything.
But unless the ASF gets free registrations, this is a cost that will
need to be handled on an ongoing basis.
Suppose we're speaking about 10 domains, I don't think $100 /year is going
to break the ASF's coffers, or does it?.
http://www.maddogdomains.com/?isc=mddgdic04&gclid=CMH82K_gnLACFQKCnQodP1NCYA
.com $8.17/yr
.org $7/yr
I count 28 domains on Andrew's list.
The 28 by themselves is not a huge expense. I just want us to
consider whether this actually accomplishing anything. For example,
I'd hate to see us expand this strategy to other NL's or other
permutations of domain names without really understanding how the
"game" is played today. With the expansion of TLD's, the game seems
to be getting domains like openoffice.fm and then using Twitter and
Google+ to spam advertisements, or to use Google or Bing sponsored
search ads to drive traffic to the fake website.
Don't worry particularly about cost. If there's a good reason, and an
agreement within the PPMC for the project to request it, we should be
able to take care of it.
Personally, I support continuing any existing domains, simply because
there may well be existing links or traffic to them already which we
don't want to fall into spammer's hands.
I don't see the need to go grab a whole bunch of new names though,
unless there's specific evidence that shows there's value in it. There
are far more important things to work on than trying to out-guess
spammers who rely on mis-typings.
- Shane
-Rob
FC
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