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Trademark Attorneys Warn Companies About the Upcoming .CM Cybersquatting Possibilities

• Comment posted Jul 24, 2009 2:54 am PDT — by Frank Michlick
  Our editor Chad made a similar point in his Editorial earlier this week, mentioning that there are little reasons to purchase .CM domains for anything else but potential typo traffic, considering Internet penetration in Cameroon only is between 2-4% so…

Amazon's S3 Cloud Service Goes Down for Several Hours

• Comment posted Jul 22, 2008 3:21 pm PDT — by Frank Michlick
  Thanks for reporting on this. S3 is Amazon's storage service, the processing service is called EC2 (elastic computing cloud).

Typosquatting: A Solution

• Comment posted Feb 18, 2008 12:11 am PST — by Frank Michlick
  One more ;-) If we can find a better way to handle typo domains, we should also take a closer look at ISPs, DNS providers and Browser and Toolbar Manufacturers, which also today capture a growing part of typo traffic…

• Comment posted Feb 14, 2008 3:16 pm PST — by Frank Michlick
  Thank you for your response Alex. However I don't think the carrot & stick approach is going to work very well for most typo domains, keeping in mind the following: 1) Most owners of typo domains are already willing to…

• Comment posted Feb 13, 2008 11:36 pm PST — by Frank Michlick
  Interesting post - I am not quite sure exactly what you are referring to by "IPonFire‘s carrot-and-stick strategy". I visited their site and couldn't really find any details about their approach. Actually, make that "your site". I think at least…

Squeegee Domains

• Comment posted Jun 25, 2007 4:50 pm PDT — by Frank Michlick
  Suresh Ramasubramanian: And if you actually make enough in ppc revenue from visits to that site to justify the multi million dollar valuations on some of those domains .. Suresh, thanks for adding your valuable comments. Not sure what this…

• Comment posted Jun 25, 2007 4:26 pm PDT — by Frank Michlick
  John, I have to agree with Kevin here. Domain Monetization is not necessarily based on typo domains. And while you might not do so, users do indeed type in generic domains such as stocks.com and videocameras.com to find what they…

Are Click Fraud Numbers Being Exaggerated by the Traditional Media?

• Comment posted Nov 02, 2006 4:14 pm PST — by Frank Michlick
  Marc, Sharing click fraud numbers might help clearing things up, but I disagree with your conclusion that the numbers are very high just because Google/Yahoo! do not publish any numbers. If you advertise on Google adwords, there are already many…

• Comment posted Nov 01, 2006 8:49 pm PST — by Frank Michlick
  Marc, Thank you for your comments. Please note the question mark in the title of my post - and consider it a conversation starter. While I do agree (and I never said the opposite) that click fraud is an issue,…

Conflict of Opinion

• Comment posted Jul 29, 2006 3:10 am PDT — by Frank Michlick
  Larry, >> So what about a domain that has content and >> advertising? > Like this one. Yes, of course that's different. > A child could see the difference. OK, so what is NewYorkDining.com for example. A parked page? It's…

• Comment posted Jul 29, 2006 2:23 am PDT — by Frank Michlick
  Larry, So what about a domain that has content and advertising? For example some type of blog etc? Real 'legitimate' content. Is that "sleazy" as well, considering they make money of it? What about larger corporations owning domains and not…

• Comment posted Jul 26, 2006 11:02 pm PDT — by Frank Michlick
  Harrison, Thank you for your comment. Please keep in mind that while whois privacy does not list the current registrant of a domain publicly, it will not prevent you from contacting the current owner. If you want to file a…

• Comment posted Jun 22, 2006 3:54 am PDT — by Frank Michlick
  Comment Link In short: It appears that Mr. Isenberg owns the domain name couponcodes.com, which is (now) registered with whois privacy.

How Domain Name Traffic Testing/Tasting Works

• Comment posted Apr 25, 2006 1:40 pm PDT — by Frank Michlick
  Larry, This could possible used for phising and spamming, yes. But since this would either require the originator to be an ICANN accredited registrar or a reseller of a registrar who passes on this is ability to delete the names…