This seems a similar model to the .sucks TLD. They offered domains to company owners for $2500 before offering them to the public.
The .feedback scam
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Re: The .feedback scam
#92The whois data for domains under this TLD is kind of interesting whois stackoverflow.feedback returns a phone number with a CNAM of STACK OVERFLOW, and the same address listed on https://stackoverflow.com/company/contact whois google.feedback returns the phone number +1.1978600872, which is not a valid US area code last I checked. The address appears to be a PO box in Seattle. facebook.feedback has the same bogus pho…
Casual browsing of Jay's Twitter suggests he might be behind it. Also from:
http://www.dnsfan.com/2015/11/hammer-nails-and-feedback.html
> ICANN's core values are creativity, innovation, and respect the flow of information. The .Feedback registry is innovating and following those core values by allowing transparency with an independent review system that can be operated by anyone willing to sponsor a name. The .Feedback domain is different from all the other registries. It is human nature to fear change and innovation, this registry doesn't want to be in the business of selling just DNS domains like every other registry. We want to innovate!
(Innovation my ass...)
Also2, this seems to be the official page for the operation:
EDIT: Jay seems to be a big fish in the industry, so this is somewhat surprising.
Re: The .feedback scam
#93This feels very similar to Trustpilot in my opinion. The format and description of the company (in the first person) is extremely similar. The only difference is branding. Trustpilot don't have a domain looking like the company, but companies can pay to take control of their brand on the platform.
Re: The .feedback scam
#94See the thread here[0] for info on who's likely behind it. It seems to be operating since at least 2015 already.
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#96Browsers should just s/.feedback/.com/, problem solved.
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#97I worked for a feedback company in the past. Nobody cares even when they pay for a feedback widget and get the reports emailed/pushed to their managers. Most of the clients didn't even login to the site or collect the feedback (sign up for notifications, download a csv, etc). AFAICT, companies paid for the feedback widget to check some box on a yearly powerpoint along the lines of "manages user feedback". It's a good racket to be in once you realize that nobody cares about your product and just wants a good-looking widget that is effectively write once. You just build good sales and relationship managers then hit up enterprise.
I'm 90% sure that the entire concept of the feedback form/widget is only still with us as a way of channeling user rage into non-social platforms. "Here, complain into this void that won't hurt our public opinion!"
Re: The .feedback scam
#98this is the price of having no or nearly no regulation or standards.
as much as i appreciate the arguments for why that is the case, its important to recognise the cost of that philosophy in practice
still i hope there is some legal action that comes against them.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
The German word for it is Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand, apparently.
In 22 years of living in germany, ive never once heard anyone use that atrocity of a word or anything close to it - I guess it's a joke-word from the tv series How I met your mother making fun of the fact that many complex german words are just glued together from other words, eg. Krankenhaus ("ill building" or "building for the ill"). This does not mean that every compound word you theoretically could form is actual…
Yep. Anything with more than one of "schaft", "stand", "gegen", "-biet", etc., is either a joke, or a government office.
Re: The .feedback scam
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
I think "Stack Overflow Admin"'s response to Dan Manny should speak for itself: > You fucking moron!!! You lost money because you were so stupid and not being able to differentiate bad code from good code. StackOverflow is not you free personal assistant. You should kill yourself for being so stupid.
From reading the "reviews" at http://www.stackoverflow.feedback/reviews, I get the feeling the entire .feedback TLD will soon be hosting all kinds of 4chan-alike pages and the owners will have to take the sites down because of the NSFW things that will be posted there...