On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Cameron Byrne <cb.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 26, 2011 1:29 AM, "Florian Weimer" <fwei...@bfk.de> wrote: >> >> * Cameron Byrne: >> >> > It is very important to ask the redirect partners about yields... > meaning, >> > you may find that less than 5% of nxdomain redirects can be actually > served >> > an ad page because 95%+ of nxd are printer lookups and such that cannot > be >> > served an ad page. Then from that less than 5% pool, the click through >> > rates are around 1% >> >> Is this with strict NXDOMAIN rewriting, or were existing names >> redirected as well? (AFAIK, most platforms do the latter, hijacking >> bfk.de, for example.) >> > > I have no experience with hijacking real names, which others have noted is > evil.
I'm curious, is there some belief that the use of hte nxdomain hijacking/rewriting is actually of use to 'users' ? (I'd seen folk claim that the revenue was super-nice, and also it's super beneficial to users...) I don't happen to believe either of these reasons, cameron's note about checking for the right set of numbers before signing contracts seems to indicate that the revenue wasn't there either... -chris
