Comments on: The rise of the dot-org http://blog.javia.org/the-rise-of-the-dot-org/ Android apps Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:30:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: mihai http://blog.javia.org/the-rise-of-the-dot-org/comment-page-1/#comment-15 mihai Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:26:20 +0000 http://blog.javia.org/?p=30#comment-15 Hi Paul, I based my estimation of 80% on the figures from these articles by GoDaddy's CEO: <a href='http://www.bobparsons.com/adddropscheme.html' rel="nofollow">add-drop scheme</a> and <a href='http://www.bobparsons.com/MayKiting.html' rel="nofollow">domain kiting</a>. These posts suggest that already in April 2006, as much as 92% of new registrations were spam. Perhaps another way of investigating the problem would be to test a sample of domain names, and see what percentage is spam. The difficulty in this case is in having a representative sample. For example, <a href='http://bobparsons.com/' rel="nofollow">bobparsons.com</a> is good, but <a href='http://bobparson.com/' rel="nofollow">bobparson.com</a> is spam. Hi Paul,
I based my estimation of 80% on the figures from these articles by GoDaddy’s CEO:
add-drop scheme and
domain kiting.
These posts suggest that already in April 2006, as much as 92% of new registrations were spam.

Perhaps another way of investigating the problem would be to test a sample of domain names, and see what percentage is spam. The difficulty in this case is in having a representative sample.
For example,
bobparsons.com is good, but bobparson.com is spam.

]]> By: Paul Marculescu http://blog.javia.org/the-rise-of-the-dot-org/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Paul Marculescu Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:35:46 +0000 http://blog.javia.org/?p=30#comment-14 I agree with you regarding the haste shown by the spammers or domain pirates to take over as much .com domains as possible. However, I find your estimate of 80% .com domains taken by them to be a little high. When choosing the name for our web application, Teamness, one of the prerequisites was to be able to obtain the .com domain with the selected name and it was a little difficult to come up with it, due to the reasons you mentioned. I think that for this reason many of the forthcoming businesses will choose .org or .net domains versus .com, taken into account that most of the future customers will get to the website by following a link returned from a search engine, found on a web page or received through an email, im or even a business card. I agree with you regarding the haste shown by the spammers or domain pirates to take over as much .com domains as possible. However, I find your estimate of 80% .com domains taken by them to be a little high.

When choosing the name for our web application, Teamness, one of the prerequisites was to be able to obtain the .com domain with the selected name and it was a little difficult to come up with it, due to the reasons you mentioned. I think that for this reason many of the forthcoming businesses will choose .org or .net domains versus .com, taken into account that most of the future customers will get to the website by following a link returned from a search engine, found on a web page or received through an email, im or even a business card.

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