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Marketing On a .EDU Domain

Posted by kdawson on from the even-marketers-think-it's-sleazy dept.

wrttnwrd, an Internet marketer, opens a can of whup-ass on LinkAdage and the Pickering Institute, which have teamed up to rent blog space on a .edu domain for $50 a month. Technically legal maybe but undermining of the trust a .edu engenders.

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  1. Really? who looks at .edu? by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Informative
    Very few link clickers look at and parse URLs and very few really know the difference between .edu, .net, .com etc.

    And anyone savvy enough to know the difference should also be sceptical enough to not get suckered.

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    Engineering is the art of compromise.
  2. Is the "Pickering Institute" for real? by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Hypocrisy, slashdot.org is thy name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Your information is outdated. According to Internic (http://www.internic.net/faqs/org-transition.html), .org was originally intended "for organizations that weren't commercial entities, educational institutions, network providers, or governmental agencies. In recent years registration in .org has become open and unrestricted (it will stay that way under its new operator.)"