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Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by adventured »

77yy77yy wrote: post #27

The UDRP process is a joke and they got lucky with one panelist. Best go with three and an attorney. They're easily leaving over US$ 500 a day on the table, for many years. Even if you hate advertising, take the money and donate to some charity. There are many who can use that kind of funds. Wasteful.

> Even if you hate advertising, take the money and donate to some charity. There are many who can use that kind of funds.

It's terrible, all these people with houses in prominent traffic locations and people driving vehicles in high density urban environments, who refuse to place advertising all over their property. So much money being left on the table - even at low ad rates - they could be helping the less fortunate with those billions of collective ad dollars.

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Post by edpichler »

blauditore wrote: post #21

I think you couldn't make much money out of this anyway. 5k daily visitors sounds decent, but they are of low "quality": They quickly leave and would generate bad click-through rates. It would probably yield less than $100 a month.

It would make less than 40 USD month, I guess. I am comparing to a page with similar quantity of unique visitors I have.

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Post by chrismorgan »

blauditore wrote: post #21

I think you couldn't make much money out of this anyway. 5k daily visitors sounds decent, but they are of low "quality": They quickly leave and would generate bad click-through rates. It would probably yield less than $100 a month.

How about if you monetised it by phishing, pretending to actually be gmail.com?

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Post by mfukar »

chrismorgan wrote: post #34
blauditore wrote: post #21

I think you couldn't make much money out of this anyway. 5k daily visitors sounds decent, but they are of low "quality": They quickly leave and would generate bad click-through rates. It would probably yield less than $100 a month.

How about if you monetised it by phishing, pretending to actually be gmail.com?

How about punching a policeman, instead, and cut down on the time until you are transferred to a cell?

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by tmaly »

This is what I loved about the web back in the day. I remember putting up my first web page and coming across Matt's script archive.

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by ourcat »

tmaly wrote: post #36

This is what I loved about the web back in the day. I remember putting up my first web page and coming across Matt's script archive.

Matt's Script Archive is where it all began for me.

All those years ago a company paid me £15k to build them a website which they could update themselves.

So I turned WWWBoard into a kind of blog/publishing system for them and they loved it. Cha-ching! :)

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by dvirsky »

I once worked with a guy who had a domain that is the name of a major bank in my country (i.e. he owned {bank_name}.xyz and the bank's domain is {bank_name}-bank.xyz). Somehow he managed to hold on to it over the years.

Anyway, he had a catch-all email account for the domain, an sometimes interesting stuff would arrive. One day he showed me an email he had just received from a major investment firm that read more or less like this:

> Hey Jane, what's up?

> So I need to transfer those $50M we talked about over the phone the other day, just wanted to confirm the account. It's 123456789, right? If not, do send me the account number. Thanks!

Of course he didn't even reply, but he said these things happened pretty often.

Re: Gail, not Gmail

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Post by manmal »

erdemozg wrote: post #9

I would be tempted to implement a custom SMTP server that accepts every email as if that target mailbox exists and collect them on a nosql db (just for curiosity and technical challenge) though I have no idea if I'd face any legal issues.

Or just pretend that you are a gmail mail server and store the credentials that are transmitted when people add the account to their mail app.
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