More news coverage

Thu Oct 9 00:44:13 UTC 2003

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul G [mailto:paul at rusko.us] 
> Sent: October 8, 2003 8:38 PM
> To: Vivien M.; 'ken emery'; nanog at merit.org
> Subject: Re: More news coverage
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Vivien M." <vivienm at dyndns.org>
> To: "'ken emery'" <ken at cnet.com>; <nanog at 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 
> Marketing's name for 
> > the wildcard A record? What's the point of the search engine at 
> > sitefinder.verisign.com (which appears to be down) without the 
> > wildcard A record directing stuff to it?
> 
> they could try to get some legitimate traffic as , say, 
> google or yahoo do by providing a valuable service. if it is 
> 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? 

The service's "value", if any (and that's a very big if), depends on it
being automatic...

Vivien
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