New Domain Rating system alleged incometance by Yahoo!

[JB Lions]

Think things might change since Bing is now powering Yahoo regular search and by end of October, should be powering the PPC ads on Yahoo as well. That's the part that's mixed in with this, the PPC?

 

[Theo]

Just drop Yahoo from the advertisers and switch to Google. Makes no sense otherwise. Yahoo is fascistic.

 

[A D]

Just noticed this thread and found I have over 600 names blocked and some are generics.

avatars.com marked as controvercial, applepicking.com as restricted. hamiltonoffices.com as trademarked.

and my favorite, tmwebsite.com as a trademark.

Some make no sense.

-=DCG=-

 

[Bill Roy]

Donny, from an outsiders point of view I think it is time you really went to Yahoo and said enough is enough!

I do not park names, but hell this is so ridiculous it is bordering on stupid.

No on second thoughts, correction on the above, this situation can only be described as 'stupid'.

 

[Theo]

Yahoo's technological puritanism has no place in today's business. Show them who's boss. Google engages in a partnership relationship with Sedo, not in a master/slave relationship that dictates what Parked must do.

 

[Gerry]

I am actually seeing Bodis convert more customers than Sedo on the same names. Time to do more studies.

Parked? Left them quite a while back when clicks and revenue were totally deleted because Yahoo's partners did not want to pay for them.

Like I said then and say now - that's free traffic.

 

[MT Domains]

Glad I found this thread when digging through the parked section of the forums (learning about the custom content). I really like Parked.com as a parking company.. I don't have great domains, but the ones that do occasionally get traffic have done better at parked.com than anywhere else, and give me some extra funds to grab more domains. I checked the list of my domains and a couple of these kind of cracked me up:

hackysack.net - Controversial - I guess it was the "hack" part of it?
miniburgers.net - Trademark -

I wonder if all domains with the word "hack" somewhere in them are getting marked as controversial, and all domains with a trademark name in them (like mini apparently) are being marked as trademark even if it's just part of the word. Like would Rutherford.com be marked as a trademark domain by yahoo because of the "ford" in it? :lol:

I still can't figure out DotComGod's "avatars.com" being controversial and applepicking.com being adult.. Would've made more sense for applepicking.com to be Trademark...with the whole "apple" and "king" part in it! That's a double whammy! Apple, and Burger King (I'm not being serious of course)

 

[Focus]

I'm sure the domain avatars.com was considered to be controversial because of the movie name "Avatar" but that is only because yahoo is stupid when it comes to such matters. Should not take much however to get that unblocked but the question remains why should that even happen in this first place?

 

[Theo]

Chris, I had the same discussion with Parked months ago and the issue is Yahoo's policies. Apparently some uber-religious geek middle manager at Yahoo decided to impose their morals onto the millions of domains on the Internet and issued a command, nazi style. I am more concerned about why Parked hasn't dropped fascistic Yahoo yet. I'd rather have Google's brazen statement that they expand ads on tm's (AdSense terms) than Yahoo's micromanagement.

 

[Focus]

I would hate to see parked keep losing their customers and what I think is probably alot of ppc money because of this crap from Yahoo it is really starting to get out of control so I am looking for alternatives myself unfortunately due only to the constant issues with Yahoo randomly blocking names that really should not be blocked. It's not Donny's fault he has went to bat for me on many of them and I know he does not want them blocked so let us make sure we point the finger at the right culprits. I mean if generics are not even safe then how can you sleep at night really not knowing if your investment into traffic & rev producing names is going to be shot down all of the sudden due to the guy at Yahoo. Who is this guy exactly Acro?, it would be interesting to know what exactly his motivations if any may be. Could he be trying to devalue domain names for some reason?

 

[Theo]

Don't know who's the brilliant decision maker behind this clusterphuck but I'd love to know if anyone in his family served in the SS.

 

[stevo]

Quite a few of my names have a "quality_block" designation. Does anyone know if the quality refers to the domain or to the content? I'm hoping it refers to the content. How could you change it (the designation) otherwise? It really doesn't make sense. Examples of some .us domain designations:

BoogieBoards.us - quality_block
DogHouses.us - Clean

Apprenticeships.us -quality_block
HoneyBees.us - clean

Here are two that show the total randomness of the designations. Both of these are resort areas on Maui:

Kaanapali.us - clean
Lahaina.us - quality_block

I could go on with dozens of more examples, mostly .us domains. There are discrepancies in other extensions as well. There are no quality_block issues from any of my .com domains, regardless of the quality. And believe me, there are some real stinkers in there quality-wise. Again.... doesn't make sense.

 

[draggar]

cavalierkingcharlesspaniels is a trademark??

and a "quality block" on collies.us ?

 

[Theo]

Ed - welcome to the madness...

Yahoo has baptized .us and .biz TLDs as of lesser quality. Does the .biz and .us Registry know?

And 'cavalier' alone supposedly makes your domain a tm violation.

 

[Raider]

Can figure out why a domain like; buymyname.com would be Banned.

Unless the idiots at Yahoo thought I was selling my identity.

 

[Fearless]

Google has also gone ban happy. They banned ItalyWines.com!

 

[Donny Simonton]

I've been watching this thread the past few days. I'll comment on all of the different ones below.

As far as .us and .biz domains, yes I know that almost all of them are blocked via Yahoo's quality_block flag. This is across their entire network. I have talked to some of the team who personally decided to block .us and .biz and their reason was that every domain that had any traffic was mostly arbitrage. They had run some TQ scores by cctld/gtlds and anything that was really bad they got rid of. They told me that .us and .biz were blocked because of this reason. I then went to Neulevel/Neustar and told them about it and put them in contact with Yahoo. I know they have at least talked to Yahoo because Yahoo mentioned it to me. But I am not sure where it went after that. I think the blocking of .us and .biz domains was a bad decision.

Yes, Google bans a lot more domains that most people think. And guess where most of that traffic goes? Yahoo.

More people noticed that domains were getting blocked, banned, etc... Because we made that information available to our customers. I thought it was the right thing for us to do. Sure we have gotten a lot of grief since then from our customers side and even from Yahoo. But it was the best thing for our clients.

In Yahoo's world, "banned" usually means a domain did something it wasn't supposed to do. Like arb or really low TQ scores. Yahoo has been banning individual domains that do arb, arb like tendencies, or very low domain level TQ scores. "quality block" is when a domain has too many dashes, too many numbers, or is an extension Yahoo doesn't like, for example .us and .biz. "restricted" is when a domain can be two things and Yahoo has decided it's easier to just require us to put their keywords on a domain, for example applepicking.

Some of the domains that have been mentioned on here, I have checked and submitted them to Yahoo for re-checking.

Donny

 

[Bill Roy]

opcorn:

I sometimes think I am missing something almighty by not parking, then comes along a thread like this, or about Sedo, etc., and I realise that I am missing something really big - the absolute waste of time and heartache that parking domains involves!

:loco:

 

[draggar]

opcorn:

I sometimes think I am missing something almighty by not parking, then comes along a thread like this, or about Sedo, etc., and I realise that I am missing something really big - the absolute waste of time and heartache that parking domains involves!

:loco:

Yeah but it's a quick and easy way to get something up on a domain while you're waiting (or too lazy) to develop the domains.

 

[Bill Roy]

You mean going through choosing subject, key words, etc., only to have ignored or changed by some bot and you don't even get informed. But each to their own.