[63644] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: More news coverage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Wed Oct 8 20:47:12 2003
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: "'Paul G'" <paul@rusko.us>, "'ken emery'" <ken@cnet.com>,
<nanog@merit.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 20:44:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: <00b901c38dfd$a19a6b80$700a0a0a@chekhov>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul G [mailto:paul@rusko.us]=20
> Sent: October 8, 2003 8:38 PM
> To: Vivien M.; 'ken emery'; nanog@merit.org
> Subject: Re: More news coverage
>=20
>=20
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
> To: "'ken emery'" <ken@cnet.com>; <nanog@merit.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:28 PM
> Subject: RE: More news coverage
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> > But isn't the "SiteFinder service" just VeriSign=20
> Marketing's name for=20
> > the wildcard A record? What's the point of the search engine at=20
> > sitefinder.verisign.com (which appears to be down) without the=20
> > wildcard A record directing stuff to it?
>=20
> they could try to get some legitimate traffic as , say,=20
> google or yahoo do by providing a valuable service. if it is=20
> as valuable as they claim, users will keep coming back.
But for most endusers who are using IE, they already get the MS search =
page?
And who is actually going to manually go to sitefinder and type in their
typoed URLs, especially when they're already used to Google or similar?=20
The service's "value", if any (and that's a very big if), depends on it
being automatic...
Vivien
--=20
Vivien M.
vivienm@dyndns.org
Assistant System Administrator
Dynamic DNS Network Services
http://www.dyndns.org/=20
