[116495] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dan Kaminsky
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Wed Aug 5 18:39:49 2009
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:37:32 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, Ben Scott <mailvortex@gmail.com> said:
> In the the vast majority of cases I have seen, people don't type
> domain names, they search the web. When they do type a domain name,
> they usually type it into the Google search box.
Web != Internet. DNS is used for much more than web sites, and many of
those things are not in a public index. For example, most people type
in their friends' email addresses (at least into an address book).
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
