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Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Sullivan)
Wed Aug 15 10:49:49 2007

Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:46:49 -0400
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On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 01:41:17PM -0000, John Levine wrote:

> The real way to get rid of tasting would be to persuade Google and
> Yahoo/Overture to stop paying for clicks on pages with no content
> other than ads, but that would be far too reasonable.

Another way would be to eliminate all registrar grace periods, which
is a significant part of making tasting profitable.  But I don't think
the registrars would allow such a change.

A

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