How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this? • Hacker News Board

Re: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this?

#41

Post by jcalacanis » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:19 PM UTC

aaronwall wrote: post #39

slouch wrote: post #38

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i had to look: google-questions.com/tip_guidelines how timely is this google webmaster video? youtube.com/watch?v=RlNPRonDxuU#t=2m57s the key part about domains google seizes starts at 2:57

Great citation. Years ago I registered AdWordsBlog.com and AdSenseBlog.com & then pinged a Google engineer so they could transfer them in. Its the polite thing to do. I did the same thing with SethGodin.net. If you see some stuff like that out there then why not try to help people out who have spent millions of Dollars building up their brands. The opposite of the above, to register the domain names & then to try to…

I think you're once again trying to spam Hacker News with your own personal vendetta against me Aaron.

Most brands love when folks make fan sites or communities.

You're being intellectually dishonest here, using the term squatting when in fact that's not what we're doing. Take a look at Internet Brands and their forums for automotive:

http://www.internetbrands.com/our-brands/automotive/

They provide independent forums, with trademarks in the domains, for almost every car brand. These forums are high-quality and valuable.

If someone wants to make CalacanisSucks.com, CalacanisTalk.com and CalacanisQuestions.com I'm fine with it. Go ahead... talk about me all day long.

I mean, you're doing that anyone Aaron.

Seriously, you are a link baiting machine Aaron. However, don't you think it's a little sad that the most attention you've ever gotten in your life is when you're attacking me.

The folks on HackerNews are sick of Calacanis-Baiting... give it a rest please. I hate seeing my name on HackerNews.... in fact, can someone create a Chrome Extension that removes all posts that are by aaronwall and mention mahalo/calacanis?

thanks!

Re: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this?

#42

Post by jcalacanis » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:24 PM UTC

aaronwall wrote: post #40

jcalacanis wrote: post #27

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Ain't that the truth! I've got 10 or so SEOs who watch everything we do and send complaint letters by the dozens to Matt. Keeps us on our toes to an absurd level.

The question is, do you feel you deserve such exposure? How did you manage to earn it? Was it what you were hoping for? I hope your search traffic is up, in spite of what third party metrics tools are showing ;) I will give you this... nfl-answers.com was (almost) a great Hail Mary strategy ;)

If you want to obsess about me please continue... all your doing is making yourself look bad. It's silly to obsess to this level about one person. The Hacker News community is now looking at the account AaronWall as a spammer--way to go!

In terms of traffic we took a little hit when we removed the shorter pages, and we actually have a higher benchmark than anyone in the content space about what we index--and the search engines know this. We only rank stuff--on average--when it's 300 words or more. This means we have a much higher benchmark than About.com, Wikipedia and Google Knol.

we got this suggestion from you and it's actually concentrated our page rank to the high-quality, higher CPM pages.... the end result? When we removed the low quality pages our revenue grew 2.5x!!!

You are responsible for, literally, millions of dollars in revenue for Mahalo.... for that I think your tollish ways!

Sidenote: I've apologized to the SEO community a million times for saying SEO is BS. you're the one who won't get over it. Keep wasting everyone's time with your non-sense while I create more companies, invest in more companies and getting more stacks.

My life is unfairly epic, and your life is spent obsessing about that fact..... sad dude. really. The most attention and achievement you'll have in your sad little life is when you're throwing rocks at me. Sad.

Re: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this?

#43

Post by Ummmmm » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:48 PM UTC

Jason sits here and tries to claim there is nothing wrong with registering trademarks in domains when about a month ago, Mahalo lost a domain to StateFarm because Mahalo had violated their trademark.

http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1317317.htm

So Jason, did you not know you had lost a domain or are you flat out lying about your knowledge of how trademarks and domains work?

Re: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this?

#44

Post by aaronwall » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:59 PM UTC

Ummmmm wrote: post #43

Jason sits here and tries to claim there is nothing wrong with registering trademarks in domains when about a month ago, Mahalo lost a domain to StateFarm because Mahalo had violated their trademark. http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1317317.htm So Jason, did you not know you had lost a domain or are you flat out lying about your knowledge of how trademarks and domains work?

At some point, doesn't a person who consistently ends up on the wrong side of the truth end up losing the benefit of the doubt?

My guess is Jason was hoping nobody would find that. ;)

Re: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this?

#45

Post by aaronwall » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:04 PM UTC

jcalacanis wrote: post #42

aaronwall wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The question is, do you feel you deserve such exposure? How did you manage to earn it? Was it what you were hoping for? I hope your search traffic is up, in spite of what third party metrics tools are showing ;) I will give you this... nfl-answers.com was (almost) a great Hail Mary strategy ;)

If you want to obsess about me please continue... all your doing is making yourself look bad. It's silly to obsess to this level about one person. The Hacker News community is now looking at the account AaronWall as a spammer--way to go! In terms of traffic we took a little hit when we removed the shorter pages, and we actually have a higher benchmark than anyone in the content space about what we index--and the sear…

As long as you feel important I suppose that is all that matters. Self-aggrandizing for the win.

The funny thing about your presumption is that you don't realize how much web traffic I control, or that I was able to grow a similar sized traffic stream without bilking investors & without looting third party content without permission or opt out & without cybersquatting.

You take the low road & I'll take the high one.

No matter how many times you use the word troll it won't change the facts. ;)

Re: How long has Mahalo been using keyword domains like this?

#46

Post by Thanks » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:38 PM UTC

jcalacanis wrote: post #41

aaronwall wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great citation. Years ago I registered AdWordsBlog.com and AdSenseBlog.com & then pinged a Google engineer so they could transfer them in. Its the polite thing to do. I did the same thing with SethGodin.net. If you see some stuff like that out there then why not try to help people out who have spent millions of Dollars building up their brands. The opposite of the above, to register the domain names & then to try to…

I think you're once again trying to spam Hacker News with your own personal vendetta against me Aaron. Most brands love when folks make fan sites or communities. You're being intellectually dishonest here, using the term squatting when in fact that's not what we're doing. Take a look at Internet Brands and their forums for automotive: http://www.internetbrands.com/our-brands/automotive/ They provide independent forum…

I can't speak for anyone else, but if you took "The folks on HackerNews are sick of Calacanis-Baiting" and removed "-Baiting" from the end that would be pretty accurate.