Comments on: Web site reclamation service idea

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:11:41 +0000

This would be a viable value-add service for a high-end corporate domain name management service provider. Low overhead (simple to automate) and high value (to a brand manager) too.

By: Bill Brown

Bill Brown — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:24:07 +0000

This would work fine enough on a brochure-ware site, but aren’t a lot of sites (even the basic ones) dynamic.

Bill

By: sean

sean — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:27:24 +0000

right so like a premium subscription to archive.org that snapshots your site more frequently… interesting. shhhh don’t tell Brewster Kahle ;-)

the thing to realize here (and someone else on the Cambrian House thread had the same misunderstanding with the concept) is that it’s _not_ an insurance policy you purchase ahead of time, it’s an emergency response you buy once the problem has occurred. think about this: what if you didn’t have to buy auto insurance upfront and instead there was just a $200 fee you could pay to recover your automobile in the event that it were stolen?

sean

By: james

james — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:53:10 +0000

I’m guessing most people won’t think they need this until it’s too late.

Perhaps one could subscribe to a weekly auto-snapshot service that only held the most recent copy.

I wonder if archive.org, AKA the way-back machine, could make a few bucks to support itself by offering some sort of copy++ service? They already mirror sites, they just don’t always do it as often as one might want.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:54:13 +0000

This would be a viable value-add service for a high-end corporate domain name management service provider. Low overhead (simple to automate) and high value (to a brand manager) too.

By: sean

sean — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:37:47 +0000

Rick- there would definitely be potential for abuse but the worst case is that people make clones of existing sites. I would set a 5-day expiration on the mirrored sites that aren’t paid for. And ultimately the domain dispute resolution process still occurs independently with each registrar- the service merely provides a wizard to assist the non-technical person in reclaiming their site.

good point though

sean

By: Rick Curran

Rick Curran — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:28:19 +0000

Interesting idea, though you’d have to be careful that people didn’t make use of the service just to rip-off other people’s websites.