Re: Old PBM Rulebooks

From: "Bob McLain" <mclain@voicenet.com>

Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 11:20:45 +0000

Patrick:

> Hey Bob, you're still around.

Yes - can't you hear the bells ringing and see the throngs massing joyously
in the streets...

Are you still playing BSE?

>BTW, whatever happened to tightbeam?

I let the domain name lapse and it was snatched up by the Internet's
boogeyman, Ultimate Search.

If you have a domain with even a small amount of traffic, and you let that
domain name drop, Ultimate Search will take it and then channel visitors
through your old site to its search portal, where the company hopes you will
follow one of the links, earning it a small commission. Ultimate Search has
tens of thousands of domains, all pointing to its search portal. Only a
fraction of the people who end up there (usually by typing in an address
like tightbeam.com) will follow one of the links, but enough people do it to
earn the company tens of millions of bucks. Now why didn't I think of that?

Quite a few folks, even Price Waterhouse, have brought lawsuits against
Ultimate Search to recover their domain names. They never win.

Bob

References

Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
"Tony" <tony15@charter.net>
Wed, 21 May 2003 20:58:43 +0000
Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
"Bob McLain" <mclain@voicenet.com>
Thu, 29 May 2003 23:54:05 +0000
Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
"Patrick Davisson" <pdavisson@sbcglobal.net>
Fri, 30 May 2003 02:53:34 +0000
Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
"Domestos" <Domestos@rahrahrandel.fsnet.co.uk>
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:56:58 +0000
Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:51:28 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
"Tony" <tony15@charter.net>
Wed, 21 May 2003 20:58:43 +0000
Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
"Bob McLain" <mclain@voicenet.com>
Thu, 29 May 2003 23:54:05 +0000
Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
"Patrick Davisson" <pdavisson@sbcglobal.net>
Fri, 30 May 2003 02:53:34 +0000
Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
"Domestos" <Domestos@rahrahrandel.fsnet.co.uk>
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 23:56:58 +0000
Re: Old PBM Rulebooks
madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:51:28 +0000