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Interestingly, amazon.feedback redirects to amazon.com, so Amazon did pay
Or threatened to sue them into a smoking hole in the ground..
Another possibility is that the site is trying to give the impression big companies are paying so when they go after small fry it'll go easier on them.
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You must be joking or have no experience beyond 1 or 2 people. The vast majority of the online population does not learn nor care about these details. The massive amount of scams that continue to exist and grow is evidence enough. If people did something as simple as confirming the domain listed in the address bar is the site they should be on, we would see a major decrease in malware, but alas the situation continue…
The flipside of this is that if nobody visits .feedback domains, they won't be able to scam anyone. Users don't need to learn anything to avoid them, because they probably won't ever hear about them in the first place. If they have no audience, they can be safely ignored. No reason to pay $600/yr for hypotheticals. All I meant was, the moment someone brings up a .feedback domain or "Google's new feedback service," ju…
The company behind this (1), has .realty .forum .contact .pid and .observer and all the "sell" pages lookalike. Holy fuck this looks dirty.
(0) https://www.icann.org/uploads/compliance_notice/attachment/9... (1) http://www.topspectrum.com
You can't do "or pay $600/year to take the web site down". There are laws against that. It's called extortionate. That being said, they could be more subtle like Glassdoor / Yelp / etc. People would actually have to find .feedback domains useful for that to happen however. My sense is that this will just go nowhere, no business will be made, and it's all a lot of sound and fury over nothing.
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> So, users are not supposed to confer that a page claiming to be by the makers of stack overflow, are associated with SO? Yes, pretty clearly trademark infringement IMO. Confusingly similar, their websites purport to be run by the very organizations they're trying to extort. The disclaimer is IMO not sufficiently clear. SO is humorously classified as a "local business". NYC HN-ers, could you drop by the SO offices a…
I haven't done too much looking, but that seems fairly common so far. Microsoft is also a "local business", and Google is an ISP. I mean, Google Fiber is really cool, but that's not how most people use it
Wow, the author is not exaggerating when saying it is a scam. Looking at the .feedback page for Stack Overflow, it says at the top, in fairly large letters "We make Stack Overflow, where the world's developers get answers, share knowledge & find jobs they love. Also proud builders of the @stackexchange Q&A network." Then at the absolute bottom, in small, washed out print it says "Disclaimer: This site is provided to…
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Well, the reviews on stackoverflow.feedback are quite informative! Dan Manny says: Stack over flow made me loose money!!! Bad code with security wholes in it crashed my clients site!! Warning warning for scammers and Antonio B. of Indonesia says: Best site for solving programming issue!!!11!one! The most user and newbie friendly site! 11/10 would recommend You know you can trust reviews like this!
> !!!11!one! Is there a word for the feeling you get when you see 15+ year old idiot message board / forum / usenet catchphrases apparently still going strong? It's a curious mix of nostalgia and revulsion.
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