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  1. Re:Is the "Pickering Institute" for real? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Marketing On a .EDU Domain


    Does the "Pickering Institute" even exist? Their home page is a WordPress blog. They have no contact information other than an e-mail address.

    Obviously not...

  2. Re:About the site by FredFredrickson · · Score: 1 · on Marketing On a .EDU Domain
    Additionally, if you check some of the "latest" blog posts for some of their clients, it seems this is ONLY being used for ugly spam-ish marketing...

    This is basically the next venue that causes EVERY google search to show those damn spam pages every time- because *surprise* these are .EDU pages- they weigh more for Google and other search engines. This isn't about trust in the EDU name. This is about capitalizing on our trust that what an EDU has to deserves priority in our search engines because the barrier to entry almost guaruntees anti-spam in the EDU category.

    Some sample posts:

    http://domainparking.pi.edu/2008/04/15/domain-parking-education/

    Coming soon will be educational posts about monetizing domain names using advanced web 2.0 services like WhyPark.com. http://news.pi.edu/2008/04/15/stranger-safety-lesson-plans/

    Join Now for FREE at www.SSNews.org, get regular security alerts and find many stranger safety lesson plans. http://sonderman.pi.edu/2008/04/15/distance-learning-degrees-better-than-their-reputation/

    On my About page I've told you I'm of a somewhat contrarian spirit, so to put my money where my mouth is, here's my take on distance learning degrees - which are not too unexpectedly generally frowned upon (and how! and how!) within the august halls of conventional academe.
  3. Re:About the site by FredFredrickson · · Score: 1 · on Marketing On a .EDU Domain
    Additionally, if you check some of the "latest" blog posts for some of their clients, it seems this is ONLY being used for ugly spam-ish marketing...

    This is basically the next venue that causes EVERY google search to show those damn spam pages every time- because *surprise* these are .EDU pages- they weigh more for Google and other search engines. This isn't about trust in the EDU name. This is about capitalizing on our trust that what an EDU has to deserves priority in our search engines because the barrier to entry almost guaruntees anti-spam in the EDU category.

    Some sample posts:

    http://domainparking.pi.edu/2008/04/15/domain-parking-education/

    Coming soon will be educational posts about monetizing domain names using advanced web 2.0 services like WhyPark.com. http://news.pi.edu/2008/04/15/stranger-safety-lesson-plans/

    Join Now for FREE at www.SSNews.org, get regular security alerts and find many stranger safety lesson plans. http://sonderman.pi.edu/2008/04/15/distance-learning-degrees-better-than-their-reputation/

    On my About page I've told you I'm of a somewhat contrarian spirit, so to put my money where my mouth is, here's my take on distance learning degrees - which are not too unexpectedly generally frowned upon (and how! and how!) within the august halls of conventional academe.
  4. Re:About the site by FredFredrickson · · Score: 1 · on Marketing On a .EDU Domain
    Additionally, if you check some of the "latest" blog posts for some of their clients, it seems this is ONLY being used for ugly spam-ish marketing...

    This is basically the next venue that causes EVERY google search to show those damn spam pages every time- because *surprise* these are .EDU pages- they weigh more for Google and other search engines. This isn't about trust in the EDU name. This is about capitalizing on our trust that what an EDU has to deserves priority in our search engines because the barrier to entry almost guaruntees anti-spam in the EDU category.

    Some sample posts:

    http://domainparking.pi.edu/2008/04/15/domain-parking-education/

    Coming soon will be educational posts about monetizing domain names using advanced web 2.0 services like WhyPark.com. http://news.pi.edu/2008/04/15/stranger-safety-lesson-plans/

    Join Now for FREE at www.SSNews.org, get regular security alerts and find many stranger safety lesson plans. http://sonderman.pi.edu/2008/04/15/distance-learning-degrees-better-than-their-reputation/

    On my About page I've told you I'm of a somewhat contrarian spirit, so to put my money where my mouth is, here's my take on distance learning degrees - which are not too unexpectedly generally frowned upon (and how! and how!) within the august halls of conventional academe.
  5. Is the "Pickering Institute" for real? by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative · on Marketing On a .EDU Domain

    Does the "Pickering Institute" even exist? Their home page is a WordPress blog. They have no contact information other than an e-mail address.

    Their domain registration has an address of "2 Cityplace Drive, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO", which is also the address of Bin95.com, which does industrial equipment maintenance training.

  6. About the site by FredFredrickson · · Score: 3, Informative · on Marketing On a .EDU Domain

    The site is located at: http://blogs.pi.edu/ and if you visit the parent site: http://pi.edu/ it looks less like a school and looks more like one of those over-the-internet places... but with very little actual information. It makes me wonder if they obtained the EDU status by some technicality to begin with... there's no evidence this "school" has any students.

    It looks they use that same blog software on their home page, I'd say it's pretty obvious this whole set-up was with selling blogs in mind. Think about it: "pi.edu" that's prime internet real-estate.

  7. About the site by FredFredrickson · · Score: 3, Informative · on Marketing On a .EDU Domain

    The site is located at: http://blogs.pi.edu/ and if you visit the parent site: http://pi.edu/ it looks less like a school and looks more like one of those over-the-internet places... but with very little actual information. It makes me wonder if they obtained the EDU status by some technicality to begin with... there's no evidence this "school" has any students.

    It looks they use that same blog software on their home page, I'd say it's pretty obvious this whole set-up was with selling blogs in mind. Think about it: "pi.edu" that's prime internet real-estate.