Comments on: My name is important

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:10:32 +0000

Pete, surely there could be some form of arbitration at play? Or is it ALL just down to money? What happens if a big corporation decides they want mclean.com – I bet they get it! Meh.

BW – It took me one week shy of a year to break the $100 mark (which triggers a payment). A few weeks later some £55 was deposited in my bank account.

My grasp of tax laws isn’t great, but I *think* I’m safe to leave that undeclared!

For the record, that doesn’t even cover the hosting and domain names for the two blogs which have ads on them.

By: Blue Witch

Blue Witch — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:03:56 +0000

While Google charge companies for advertising to boost their search engine positioning, you will always have advert-only websites.

Mr BW has got his company website from a Google 4 to a Google 6 by placing £10K worth of ads with them in the last year. Google have to put those somewhere to make them work.

Sadly it’s how the world works now.

Personally I refuse to participate.

I’d be interested to learn how much your Google ads net you per year (and whether you’re declaring it to HMRC…)

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:01:28 +0000

I, personally, am glad that there isn’t a DNS police running around the place, casting judgement on websites and deciding who gets to keep their domain, and who must surrender it because they aren’t using it satisfactorily.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:00:41 +0000

I think if you bought a plot of land in a big city, or a building, and just plastered adverts on it …. I wonder what the council would do.

I agree it’s a shame. But then it’s life. Life’s filled with people who’s net contribution to society is to take out of it. I think it’s a waste that domains are bought and sat on, and essentially wasted.

But how do you stop this? You can raises the price of domains, but that will hurt people as much as it free’s up domains. I’m not sure you can enforce a domain’s usage, as what defines usage, how do you enforce it, and wont people just fake this with splogs or other crap.

I agree with you (and disagree with BW) that it’s not quite the same, having advertising as a component of an existing working site that is being used for something, and having a site that is just a net for google adtraffic, that I’m not sure adds any value to anyone.

I guess this is just one of those things where people are scummy, and thats part of life.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:02:36 +0000

Having thought about it, I don’t mind them putting adverts on it per se, it’s the fact that that is ALL that the domain name is being used for, it’s essentially a dormant website.

Kennamatic gets it bang on, surely a domain should be used for “in use” websites?