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| Internet group expects more domain names next year Reuters India, India - Jun 29, 2007 This would allow the use of Arabic, Chinese and a multitude of other characters to be used in domain names. While foreign characters can sometimes be used … |
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| Tests on non-English 'Net domain names expected by November, but … San Diego Union Tribune, United States - Jun 29, 2007 Individuals and companies outside the United States long have clamored for non-English scripts, finding restrictive the current limitation of domain names … |
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| ICANN moves ahead with international domain names InfoWorld, CA - Jun 29, 2007 One topic that leaders worked on was the future enablement of non-Latin characters in domain names. ICANN hopes to support Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, … |
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Can we all agree not to use “404 error” incorrectly?
A 404 error is “file not found” at an existing address. It is an HTTP-level error message generated by a web server operating at the domain name in question.
A non-existent domain error (NXDOMAIN) is generated at the DNS level when the requested domain name does not exist.
It is a distinction with several important differences.
Long ago, browsers would return “server not found” in response to NXDOMAIN DNS responses.
They don’t do that anymore. The Mozilla Foundation collects over 72 million dollars per year by configuring their browser to default to Google search on NXDOMAIN. Similarly, the default MS IE Explorer browser defaults to MSN Live Search. Other software publishers, such as Yahoo, produce browser “enhancements” which change the defaults and which produce the same result.
The position that “a domain name is not a search query” is thus more than a little bit disingenuous. Analysis of the AOL search queries that was inadvertently released by AOL some time ago, shows that more than 1/4 of the terms typed into AOL search were, in fact, domain names. It turns out that a lot of people don’t really understand how to operate a browser, and a significant portion of users type a domain name into a search bar, and then click on the first search result. My own mother used to navigate this way for years, and she was astounded when I showed her the difference between the search bar and the address bar. For a long time, she was mystified by URL’s which seemed to work for everyone else but her.
Why does it matter? Simple.
Just as the browser publishers have picked up on using NXDOMAIN as a default to paid search systems, the ISP’s - including Verizon - have begun to catch on to the fact that they can detect these errors and present search pages instead of an error page. As Eric notes, whether one considers a search page to be more useful than an error page is something of a religious question.
Whatever one’s persuasion however, it is utterly clear that if every parked domain name and search page were to disappear overnight, then the very next day internet users would still be getting search pages in response to those addresses.
The only difference would be who gets the money. What is truly impressive is the strategy that Verizon has taken in order to clear out registered domain names in order to replace the resulting non-existent domain names with their Superpages search system. It’s brilliant. Reply
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| Synergy Between Domain Names & Keyword Based Search Engine … Search Newz, KY - 4 hours ago SEO Question: Do domain names play a role in SEO? Do search engines understand that the words are in the URL even if they are ran together without hyphens … |
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Regional top-level domain, “.asia” will be open to governments and trademark owners starting in October 2008. DotAsia Organization, the registry managing this new domain extension, is an organization made up of groups that run domain names for China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries. The “.asia” initiative is intended to unify businesses and other users in the Asia-Pacific region. More…
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