Benjamin Edelman - Selected Publications

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Spyware

Domain Names and ICANN

• Opening Dot EU (A and B). Harvard Business School Cases N9-908-052 and N9-908-053. 2008.
• Domains Reregistered for Distribution of Unrelated Content: A Case Study of "Tina's Free Live Webcam", documenting 4500+ reregistered domains used for distribution of sexually-explicit content (March - April 2002)
• Large-Scale Intentional Invalid WHOIS Data: A Case Study of "NicGod Productions"/"Domains For Sale". (April - May 2002)
• Alternative Perspectives on Registrar Market Share: The Fortune 1000, the Forbes International 500, and the Yahoo Directory - Revisited (2003 Update). (November 2003)
• Alternative Perspectives on Registrar Market Share: The Fortune 1000, the Forbes International 500, and the Yahoo Directory. (May 2002)
• Technical Responses to Unilateral Internet Authority: The Deployment of VeriSign "Site Finder" and ISP Response. (October 2003) With Jonathan Zittrain.
• Survey of Usage of the .BIZ TLD. (June 2002) With Jonathan Zittrain.
• .NAME Registrations Not Conforming to .NAME Registration Restrictions. (May 2002)
• Large-Scale Registration of Domains with Typographical Errors. (January 2003)
• Compliance with UDRP Decisions: A Case Study of Joker.com. (June 2003)
• Survey of Usage of the .US TLD. (August - September 2002)
• Registrations in Open ccTLDs. (June - July 2002)
• DNS as a Search Engine: A Quantitative Evaluation. (June - July 2002)
• Survey of Domain Registration Services. (August - November 2003)
• Intentionally Invalid Whois Data. Written testimony submitted to US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing on Internet Domain Fraud & US Government's Role in Ensuring Public Access to Accurate Whois Data. (September 2003)
• A Case Study of Disputed Registrations in .BIZ. (May 2002)
• Analysis of Registrations in the ARNI .BIZ Top-Level Domain and Analysis of Registrations in the IOD .WEB Top-Level Domain. (June 2001)
• ICANN Substantive Analysis and Conference Briefing Books: IFWP Consensus Summary and Working Drafts Comparison (July - November 1998), Executive Summaries of Formative Documents (July 1999), ICANN and the Public Interest: Pressing Issues (November 1999), Pressing Issues II: Understanding and Critiquing ICANN's Policy Agenda (November 2000) (co-author and co-editor).
• TLD Registration Enforcement: A Call for Automation - Part I and Part II. CircleID. (September - October 2002)
• Invalid WHOIS Data: Who Is Responsible? CircleID. (November 2002)
• Domain Name Typosquatter Still Generating Millions. CircleID. (February 2003)
• Jurisdiction over Domain Names: Too Much Law Or Too Little? CircleID. (March 2003)
• Quantifying Traffic to VeriSign SiteFinder. CircleID. (September 2003)
• Alternative Perspective on Registrar Market Share: Measuring Market Share of Corporate Registrars. Verisign Digital Brand Management Services - Digital Branding Bulletin. (December 2003)
• Defensive Registrations: Why They're Still Needed, and How to Make Them Earn Their Keep. Verisign Digital Brand Management Services - Digital Branding Bulletin. (December 2002)
• Experimental Cross-Registrar WHOIS Client. (July 1999, obsolete)

Filtering the Internet

• Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China and Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China. (March - November 2002) With Jonathan Zittrain.
• Internet Filtering in China. IEEE Internet Computing. (March - April 2003) With Jonathan Zittrain.
• Documentation of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia. (May - July 2002) With Jonathan Zittrain.
• Expert Report and Appendices for Multnomah County Public Library et al., vs. United States of America, et al. (challenge to the Children's Internet Protection Act). (October 2001 - April 2002)
• Localized Google Search Result Exclusions. (October 2002) With Jonathan Zittrain.
• Empirical Analysis of Google SafeSearch. (April 2003)
• Edelman v. N2H2, Inc. (July 2002)
• Web Sites Sharing IP Addresses: Prevalence and Significance. (February 2003)
• Replacement of Google with Alternative Search Systems in China: Documentation and Screen Shots. (September 2002) With Jonathan Zittrain.
• When the Net Goes Dark and Silent. The South China Morning Post. (October 2002)
• Blocked Sites Will Return, but with Limited Access. The South China Morning Post. (January 2003)
• On a Filtered Internet, Things Are Not As They Seem. Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2004 - Internet Under Surveillance. (June 2004)
• Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide. Spreading the Word on the Internet: 16 Answers to 4 Questions. OSCE Representative of Freedom of the Media Conference Reflections. (November 2003)

Electronic Commerce

• Optimal Deterrence when Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid In Arrears - With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud and Delaying Payment to Deter Online Advertising Fraud. (February-March 2008)
• Microsoft adCenter. Harvard Business School Case 908-049. With Peter Coles.
• Sears Exposes Customer Purchase History in Violation of Its Privacy Policy. January 2008.
• Assessing and Improving the Safety of Internet Search Engines. Published in The Rising Power of Search Engines on the Internet. (2007)
• Optimal Auction Design in a Multi-unit Environment: The Case of Sponsored Search Auctions. With Michael Schwarz. (December 2006)
• False and Deceptive Pay-Per-Click Ads. (October 2006)
• Adverse Selection in Online "Trust" Authorities and Certifications and Site Trustworthiness. (September 2006)
• Cookies Detected by Anti-Spyware Programs: The Current Status. (September 2006)
• Strategic Bidder Behavior in Sponsored Search Auctions. With Michael Ostrovsky. Decision Support Systems, v.43(1), February 2007, pp.192-198.
• Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords. With Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz. American Economic Review, v. 97(1), March 2007, pp.242-259.
• Greedy Bidding Strategies for Keyword Auctions. December 2006, Revised April 2007. With Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz.
• Cookie Stuffing Targeting Major Affiliate Merchants. November 2004.
• The Effect of Editorial Discretion Book Promotion on Sales at Amazon.com - Introduction & Table of Contents; body available upon request. (September 2001 - March 2002) (summa cum laude)
• Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers - working draft. (October 2003 - January 2004)
• The Effect of Geographic Location on Economics Journal Citations - available upon request. (December 2001 - January 2002)
• Documentation of Buy.com Security Breach. (October 2000)
• Using Trumpet Winsock on Netcom Netcruiser Accounts (June 1995, obsolete)

Retransmission and Geographic Restrictions

• Expert Memorandum attached to National Association of Broadcasters submission to Industry Canada (re retransmission of commercial television content over the Internet). (September 2001)
• Initial and Supplemental Expert Declarations in National Football League, et al., v. TVRADIONOW Corporation (iCraveTV). (January - February 2000)
• iCravetv.biz/Entervision Retransmits CNN, Cartoon Network, PAX TV, California NBC Affiliate. (June - July 2002)

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