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These accounts are indeed free, but not without burdens. You need to give your address and agree to a bunch of terms in order to gain access at all, and then ea
by andrewla 4y ago
These accounts are indeed free, but not without burdens. You need to give your address and agree to a bunch of terms in order to gain access at all, and then each time you request access to a specific piece of data you need to provide a justification and agree to another set of terms.
Interestingly, among those terms are:
> 1.3. not to use this Data, nor permit this Data to be used for any marketing purposes whatsoever.
I think the intent is to prevent the data being used for bulk mailing, but there's another section, 1.1 that specifically bans this. Choosing a domain name for a business is arguably marketing, so it seems that a close reading would disallow this.
I mean, of course, this is all unenforceable BS anyway. I'm surprised that someone hasn't gone ahead and taken this data and put it up on github or something; it all feels very theatrical.
- timdavila 4y ago> I'm surprised that someone hasn't gone ahead and taken this data and put it up on github or something; it all feels very theatrical. It would be out of date the minute you post it.
- julianeon 4y agoChoosing a domain name is arguably one of the core use cases here; I don't think they were looking for extremely creative readings here. What they don't want people to do is take these results and slap them in an ad to drive business. But using these results to pick your own domain name, which you personally plan to use, is fine and good.