Free Hosts??

RawAlex · 2005-07-03, 08:59 PM

Some links sites don't care (but most do).

Many TGPs's really don't care. Some people use a combination of freehosts and monster autosubmitters to drive traffic, which is only functional because they are not paying for bandwidth, otherwise the margins wouldn't work.

With the new 2257 rules, some sponsors have moved to cancel sponsor content EXCEPT if it is used on their free host. A number of sponsors have recently opened this type of free host sort of the try to fill a void and to try to not lose so much traffic (and the word out there is that some of the sponsors that pulled their sponsor content are hurting).

The current 2257 regulations make free hosts a pretty risky situation, I don't think there is any legal precident out there that gets the domain holder out of being responsible for the content on their domain. In fact, there are lawsuits out there suing companies like yahoo for things posted in user groups and such, which is a form of free host.

We'll have to see how that turns out.

Alex

2005-07-03, 08:59 PM	#3
RawAlex Took the hint. Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,597	Some links sites don't care (but most do). Many TGPs's really don't care. Some people use a combination of freehosts and monster autosubmitters to drive traffic, which is only functional because they are not paying for bandwidth, otherwise the margins wouldn't work. With the new 2257 rules, some sponsors have moved to cancel sponsor content EXCEPT if it is used on their free host. A number of sponsors have recently opened this type of free host sort of the try to fill a void and to try to not lose so much traffic (and the word out there is that some of the sponsors that pulled their sponsor content are hurting). The current 2257 regulations make free hosts a pretty risky situation, I don't think there is any legal precident out there that gets the domain holder out of being responsible for the content on their domain. In fact, there are lawsuits out there suing companies like yahoo for things posted in user groups and such, which is a form of free host. We'll have to see how that turns out. Alex