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Re: more on VeriSign to revive redirect service

  • From: Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)
  • Date: Thu Oct 16 11:05:45 2003

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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