IM a little confused..........

I was under the impression that your not suppose to have more then one listing.............



I found This post today on a forum:DMOZ is NOt Open, it is BIASED


and it led me to this site: DMOZ Top Listeds Domains

How could these places have so many urls listed in DMOZ?

Submission guidelines state that a submitter should submit their site ONCE to the SINGLE, MOST APPROPRIATE category. Exceptions include sites with a Regional component (submit your Widget company to Business/Manufacturing/Widgets and Regional/United_States/Iowa/Podunk) and sites in multiple languages.

Editors, however, can and often do "deeplink" sites that are of particular usefulness. The guidelines for deeplinking are publically available at http://dmoz.org/guidelines/site-specific.html#deeplinks .

The list you provide is misleading. Most of the top 20 are free web hosts (Geocities, et.al). They have thousands upon thousands of unique websites that just happen to share a domain name.

The original post in the thread you cite is incorrect in many ways, not to mention libelous. There is no editor that can effectively keep sites out in ANY category. No editor OWNS a category. Maybe he should come here and ask for a site status.

And, I'd like to add, we take allegations of abuse very seriously. If he submits an abuse report with the "evidence" he claims to have, it WILL be investigated.

thats what I thought. Thank you for explaining. I wasnt alleging anything, just looking to understand. I was sure there would be a reason.

I might add - he is threatening to take legal action over his listing.... I think the guy is a joke myself.

His post: DMOZ is NOt Open, it is BIASED

It's probably worth reminding everyone that the minute you start threatening legal action, you force us to keep our hands completely off your site. This means that, if you start threatening to sue, we can't review your site.

The same person also owns http://www.zonebot.com/ - which uses ODP data -

Someone has told me it violates the ODP TOS - im not sure how..

That's easy. The required links back to the equivalent ODP category for suggesting a site or applying to become an editor are borked.

For example, http://www.zonebot.com/dir/ZoneBot/Textiles_&_Nonwovens/Textiles_&_Nonwovens.htm

is equivalent to: http://dmoz.org/Business/Textiles_and_Nonwovens/Software/

It should have links to:
http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Business/Textiles_and_Nonwovens/Software

and

http://editors.dmoz.org/cgi-bin/apply.cgi?where=Business/Textiles_and_Nonwovens/Software

However, they look like this:

http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=$cat
http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/apply.cgi?where=$cat

The developer neglected to change the placeholder ($cat) with the actual value for the category.