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If somebody had a furniture story on a domain and it had posts on craigslist and then they parked it and he got hits from craigslist, that's still fine because it's part of the expired/previous traffic concept. This person you referenced bought domains, parked them, tried arbritrage it didn't work for him, then decided to spam craigs list for free. Posting 50 different messages about furniture on a city level per day for 5 days before we caught him is against the rules.
If you are on 10 boards making 100 posts a day, that's perfect fine. I don't have a problem with that because the traffic should be destibuted across different locations. I do have a problem if you are getting a large number of hits/clicks from behind password protected sites, which is against our TOS. In some cases I can block all hits from certain referrers if needed, which we have only done once and it was on request of a customer.
We do as we please, but we expect our customers to respect our policees. If somebody creates and account today, goes to their domains and clicks out 5-6 times, I won't terminate them, but I will tell them hey you can't do that. If Mother's day is around the corner and you need to buy some flowers for your mom and you go to one of your domains and search for mothers day flowers I'm not going to say you should be terminated. I leave that for the other companies to do that. We have very strict rules, we believe everybody is trying to be good, sometimes people aren't.
Donny
If you are on 10 boards making 100 posts a day, that's perfect fine. I don't have a problem with that because the traffic should be destibuted across different locations. I do have a problem if you are getting a large number of hits/clicks from behind password protected sites, which is against our TOS. In some cases I can block all hits from certain referrers if needed, which we have only done once and it was on request of a customer.
The bottom line is, you do as you please.
We do as we please, but we expect our customers to respect our policees. If somebody creates and account today, goes to their domains and clicks out 5-6 times, I won't terminate them, but I will tell them hey you can't do that. If Mother's day is around the corner and you need to buy some flowers for your mom and you go to one of your domains and search for mothers day flowers I'm not going to say you should be terminated. I leave that for the other companies to do that. We have very strict rules, we believe everybody is trying to be good, sometimes people aren't.
Until you can get Yahoo/Google/MSN to start writing contracts to smaller domain portfolio owners, it will be hard to get out of the current model we have today. If you think you can change this, I wish you luck.We want to set fair rules because our traffic is making you money first and then us. We will reverse the pie, rest assured.
Donny