RFC-Clueless ('abuse' and 'postmaster'). Reading over their site http://rfc-clueless.org/ again I see that there is the information to the policies for listing, but I just didn't happen to follow the correct series of links to get there.
It's really not very clear with that site, and ironic that a list apparently named after people who aren't compliant with docs has such poor presentation of information. The documentation is clear... eventually, if you pick the right path. I'll take this on the chin as my misreading, but unclear documentation isn't helpful (particularly if you're juggling a few other fires at the same time...)
Edit 2: I forgot I removed the line where I mentioned that I thought postmaster was baked in :)
Edit 3: It looks like the domain I'm using with gmail has a screwed up abuse and postmaster. It's a domain alias, one of two. I made new mail groups for abuse/postmaster (the goog still monitors them, re: the link above) and noticed that only one domain alias was covered by them, when all other mail groups listed both. Sending test mails confirmed that setup. After a lengthy goog support chat, it seems that the way to fix it may be to remove and re-add the faulty domain alias.
I both love and hate these long chains of cause-and-effect that we get in IT...
I think what we're seeing is both: 1) more cut-throat competition to have the lowest advertised price (the ads just display the minimum available price, not the price of a service that actually meets a customer's need) AND 2) once you get a customer on your platform, they are likely to upgrade and/or add more services which will be at the higher price points.
yeah, I would assume that 1. would push the price down in general.
The trend to discount the smallest plans has got to be mostly 2.
It's an interesting strategy; if it works, it would imply that there is more sensitivity to price at the bottom of the market than there is at the top of the market.
I don't think the market shifted away from owning/renting servers (IaaS?) - I think part of the shift was from web-based startups and companies having just development teams to having "devops" teams. Devops replaces the managed service that Rackspace hung its hat on.
Sure, I meant that I believe in the past you would like purchase or lease a server with a long term contract and they would build it for you and put it in their racks. Now, that pretty much goes away and you just rent on an hourly basis. That is a pretty big shift from signing contracts and ordering machines that used to be much more common.
If your ISP and/or Aspira were making any significant amount of affiliate commissions, I would be surprised if the merchants do not take action against them for fraud.
I chatted with a company that investigates affiliate fraud, they may have a blog post up after the new year about this. Will submit it if/when they do.
The ISPs that I've heard of using this claim to be getting low to mid thousands per month in revenue from it. I'm not sure if that counts as a significant amount of commission, but...
Honestly this is something i had in mind for my personal use. It still need lots of work on search engine to look for links smarter and return less not working links.
About audience, well i think anyone could find good use of this. But mainly its good for monitor news sites like cnn bbc aljazeera and so on, and those sites i primary used for testing so it should have best results on them.
The video and the website don't show how buyers find the items for sale, and how the meetup is arranged. Perhaps you could add a "how it works" section to the website.
