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Google pays domain parkers by allowing them to run a special AdSense program. Titled “Google AdSense for domains”, this program now reportedly triggered a class-action lawsuit which alleges “that Google committed fraud, business code violations, and unjust enrichment by selling ads that were unlikely to generate conversions”.

A new study by a major internet security company is taking aim at typosquatting, the practice of buying a misspelled domain name in the hopes that someone will mistype the name and land on that site. If someone then clicks on an text ad on the site the domain owner and the parking company will make money. While the internet security company is trying to point out the problem of typosquatting, a problem that I do not necessarily agree with, they seem to be implying that the domain parking companies are part of the problem.

Poor Jerry Jones, first his 'Boys get curb-stomped by the Patriots, then it turns out the attorney representing them at a domain name auction has no idea about the starting or ending price.

There are times when you might want to retro-actively add nofollow to links you have given freely in the past. As an example some time ago I started using the nofollow Wikipedia plugin.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers or ICANN is seeking public input for creating, approving and adding generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the Internet.

As you may know, digg recently unbanned a lot of domains, and www.mapelli.info was amongst them. They claimed they have improved their algorithm to easily detect spammy content, and that there’s no need to ban domains now.

Neil Patel over at ProNet Advertising reports that Digg has, at least a little, pruned its list of banned domains, allowing a few of them back in, presumably on condition of good behavior. At the top of Patel's list is SEO Braveheart Lee Odden's Online Marketing Blog, the banning of which ignited a digital flame war the likes of which haven't been since the last time a freshman broke ranks in the lunch line.

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that while searching with a site command at Google Search, Google returns results that may be sub domains.