Domain name for sale "in DMOZ"

Subtle or what?

[victor]

I was doing a bit of DMOZ editing when a site came up as:

site-address.tld
Domain Name For Sale
Listed In Yahoo and Open Directory.

Now that's not the spirit, is it guys?

I don't know if it is in Yahoo, but it certainly has had its last day in DMOZ.

[tschild]

> What about a site that ...

Could you please send me the URL by stickymail? - Thanks.

[rfgdxm1]

My point motsa was that while one can't directly sell and buy an ODP listing, it is conceivable that someone would buy a site where the main value was the ODP listing. For example, someone might buy a site for the purpose of its Google PageRank value, and to add a link from that site to theirs. So long as the content remains unaltered besides adding this one link, it shouldn't be removed from the ODP. There are small amateur sites out there that have high Google PR by virtue of some notable inbound links, and where the ODP link is one of them. It wouldn't surprise me in the least that some people out there are doing just that. The old site owner might even hand it over for free so long as the new owner agreed to pay for domain name fees and hosting. The beauty of this strategy is that if the site is kept intact, neither the ODP or other sites linking to are likely to drop their links. The idea of buying a domain name on the value of an ODP link and putting up a site with different content is that it is possible this will be spotted quickly, and the site dropped from the ODP. Basically, this is gambling that it'll be a long time before this change is spotted.

[Dynamoo]

There's a difference between selling an ODP listed website as an ongoing business and just selling a high PR domain name.