[64107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC))
Thu Oct 16 11:03:38 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:54:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)" <henk@ripe.net>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <OF0351B889.AF00419B-ON80256DC1.004DAF14-80256DC1.004E957F@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> In this day and age, people don't guess URLs anymore by sticking .com at
> the end of a word so there is no longer any advantage to using a .com
> domain name over a .biz or .info or .us.
FWIW, I still do as it is faster than google. I bet that that there are
more people like me.
Also, some browsers add ".com" if your URL doesn't end in ".something".
Others cycle through a list of possibilities, but there ".com" is always
the first on the list.
Henk
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