if you are still in doubt that “due to excessive advertising” is a sham, consider this: does neustar block the site called milliondollarhomepage.com?
it’s 100% ads. no content. it earned the owner >$1MM in ad income.

there are easy ways to avoid PPC ads as an end-user. it’s simply a matter of learning. if one truly wants to curb advertising, then educating users is the proper path.

neustar is not helping users in that regard… they are still directing users to PPC, and taking a cut. perhaps we all need to simply admit that ads are (or are becoming) the most valued part of the web. and no one is about to help users learn how to avoid ads, and view only content. why is that? just be honest.

1) Neustar leads in security. Verisign is lax on security

2) With ICANN’s passing last year of Verisign’s process of Bulk Transfer After Partial Portfolio Acquisition (BTAPPA) of dot com and dot net – a system Neustar implemented successfully in 2006 – it looks like massive takeover of unresolved dot coms and dot nets looming. Therefore dot us and dot biz may be good investment/development alternative. See rant, linked to above.

“”I think the only reason we’re hearing about Neustar is because they’re also in the TLD business”"

Exactly

That’s the problem as I see it

The system redirects NX domains or domains that do not yet exist. It is strictly up to the ISP to delegate a block on any domains that currently exist (or at least it was when I left). In all truth the ISP could do this with or without DNSAdvantage but Neustar makes it quite easy for them, I don’t think they really thought out the implications of this as Neustar considers their pockets first.

To be honest I wouldn’t be too worried about this from Neustar…yet. They simply haven’t gained much market, there’s other companies that do this such as Paxfire.com who don’t even consider Neustar a competitor, they physically go to the ISP and give them their Paxfire recursive box instead, have a wider range of the market and have been doing this for a longer period of time. I think the only reason we’re hearing about Neustar is because they’re also in the TLD business.

Louise

DNSAdvantage does not favor any tld, again it is up to the ISP to put any safeguards on domains that exist.

Everyone is always banging on Neustar, can’t we talk about the good they do? What about the finance student who learned a lesson by saving money when he deleted his .us and .biz portfolio, or the cripple who broke out of his wheel chair to reach the computer so he could get rid of the .us and .biz extension from his godaddy account. =)

I will ask them, but I think the answer is no, because its up to the ISP to make the call on blocking or not blocking parked domains. I don’t think the ISP get to choose what to do by extension.

Thanx!