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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. Re:All the education you need! by Seumas · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't see what the problem is. If it's okay to advertise mcdonald's on a child's report card, stuff his school full of taco bell, pizza hut, subway as well as pepsi and coke machines and pump "educational" television feeds with customized advertising to them in the class room, then what's wrong with a banner ad or something on a *.edu?

    It's 2008. I think the idea that educational institutions are anything but commercial meat-grinders has expired.