[91306] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Jul 13 12:34:12 2006
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:48:55 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:32:07 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:48:55 EDT, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
>
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Larry Smith wrote:
>
> >> Is it? If you type "fobar" and the domain does not exist, is it rude
> >> to return foobar? Or is it helpful?
> >
> > Hmmm, while a "good" question - how about another example,
> > someone mistypes whitehouse.gov - do you return the "real"
> > whitehouse.gov or
> > the whitehouse.com site ???
>
> Note: "and the domain does not exist". Whitehouse.gov absolutely
> exists.
So... I enter "whitehorse.gov". Who wins, the guy at 1600 Pennsylvania,
or the guy who's got whitehorse.com parked at GoDaddy?
I can see this as being *loads* of fun in combination with browsers
that auto-complete URLs for you (I know of at least one that will keep
auto-completing a typo in preference to what you *wanted*. Blech. ;)
"Where do you want to go today?" :)
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