The real scammers here are ICANN and the atrocious way they handled the generic TLDs.
The .feedback scam
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Re: The .feedback scam
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Let's hope they don't learn about this thing called "SEO"
Re: The .feedback scam
#33Ick. In a way, it is a sort of corporate version of those mugshot sites. I understand a lot of other scams. (Not condone, but I see the attraction of running it.) This one just seems like a lot of work to put into something that I really don't see the targeted companies choosing to go along with. Seems like borrowing a ton of grief - at the very least, they'll be hearing from a bunch of crabby lawyers.
$600 is less than the cost of lawyer time for a worthwhile response, so they may well collect more than we would like to think...
It's also about half the cost of starting an ICANN dispute resolution process.... even without a lawyer.
Re: The .feedback scam
#34Wow, 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…
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.
Re: The .feedback scam
#35They're also fingerprinting every user. I noticed because it caused Firefox to hang for over a minute.
Re: The .feedback scam
#36You 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.
Re: The .feedback scam
#37Interestingly, amazon.feedback redirects to amazon.com, so Amazon did pay
Or threatened to sue them into a smoking hole in the ground..
Amazon makes that money in about 6 seconds. I don't think they would even bother to threaten them, but that's just my opinion. Maybe that's the motivation behind the scam as well?
Re: The .feedback scam
#38I'm normally thrilled to hear about new TLDs.
This is an exception. It'd be great in theory, but the preregistered scam domains are absolutely ridiculous.
I hope the likes of Google and Facebook come down on these sites, and come down on them hard.
Re: The .feedback scam
#39Wow, 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…
It is a scam, but the reality is nobody will ever go to these domains, they will never be ranked in google or bing. So who cares. I could create a site called myfeedbacksite.com/google or google.myfeedbacksite.com.. same thing.
Re: The .feedback scam
#40The real scammers here are ICANN and the atrocious way they handled the generic TLDs.
Not necessarily. TLDs don't rank any better than anything else. Google/Bing don't rank you just because you have a word in your tld. It's a minor signal.