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Google Adsense Cracking Down on 'Tasters'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can't-hurt-things dept.

ZerothOfTheLaw writes "It appears that Google is going to eliminate Adsense for Domains for all domains younger than five days old. From the post 'The Good news is that the Quantity of advertising will be spread among fewer domains now and so those domain owners that actually own real full domains should receive more money if bid prices start to rise as a result of this. However some advocates of Domain Tasting say that perhaps no one will be able to serve the niche for some ads and no one will make money on the unserved ads.'"

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  1. Re:Tasting parasites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In this case, there should be the option to "conditionally" purchase a name. You get a 5 day grace period, but the name cannot be associated any DNS records.

    This would give you the ability to grab the names for the client to consider, but not allow people to set up these link farms unless they actually shell out the money to outright purchase the name.

  2. Re:What do you want to do about it? by base3 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I use the Firefox CustomizeGoogle plugin to filter linkfarms (e.g. *.info/*) and cloakers (e.g. experts exchange, O'Reilly Safari). I've no affiliation, just posting because this sounds like what you want.

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    One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
  3. Re:That's a problem? by MindStalker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How bout this, Virtual tasting. You can have adsence ads for the 5 days, BUT you don't receive any real money and the advertisers aren't charged. This way you can know how successful the domain might be, without occurring actual ad revenue.

  4. Re:That's a problem? by ContractualObligatio · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yup, same here.

    I promptly switched off the "I'm willing to test the new discussion system" flag. If they implement it, I'll stop using Slashdot.

    Suggestion - post to this thread if you think likewise, and we can take an opportunity to express displeasure at screwing up a discussion system due to an utterly misguided attempt at threading adverts in amongst our own posts.

  5. Re:That's a problem? by Rich0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I probably wouldn't mind the new discussion system so much if it weren't so broken on konqueror.

    I'm sorry - I shouldn't need to use a specific web browser to view a particular website. Especially when my browser is one of the first to have been acid2 compliant...