The French protest a proposed law that makes the Digital Millenium Copyright Act seem tame; two new French blogs of interest

Despite the significant traffic that comes from typed-in domain names, the public harumphing and clucking about type-in traffic is climbing in volume as it becomes clear how much money is involved. Articles this week show that domain names, and the people who make money on them, are making some commentators uncomfortable.

The usual question, “Chicken or Beef” got a new twist on a recent flight on American Airlines, where valuable marketing real estate did not go to waste. Will we see a new specialty, “tray marketers”?

I plug my interview in which I plug Names@Work

Names@Work is visiting the UK firm Sitelynx for discussions with Graham Hansell and his team.

Blogs are a bully pulpit. Now there’s “scientific” proof. But what are they proving?

The GAO reports that 5.14% (2.31 million) of all domain names are registered using “patently false” information, and another 3.65% (1.64 million) are incomplete. No kidding!

Joseph Jaffe is trying to get people to review his book Life After the 30-second spot, so he sent it out for free to quite a few people. I’m glad I asked for it; it’s a valuable perspective.

Academics will say absolutely anything….

DomainsBot did two thorough investigations about the value of domain names in the secondary (for-sale) market. One of the surprising results is that resale value actually increases as the name gets longer for one- and two-keyword domain names, up to a point.