That is what mydomain.com did. I wrote the backend, but the frontend was a single adp page. Eventually M$ paid the owners a huge sum to move the frontend to a more complicated IIS setup. Suddenly M$ had lots more domains.
tom jackson On Friday 29 February 2008 07:20, Dossy Shiobara wrote: > On 2008.02.29, Mark Mcgaha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Unusually, America Online's open source > > > AOLserver<http://www.aolserver.com/>sees tremendous growth, jumping > > > from 35 thousand to 105 thousand sites in just one month. AOLserver is > > > a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server which can be used for large > > > scale, dynamic web sites, but has not seen the release of a new version > > > since 2006. The majority of the new sites served by AOLserver are > > > hosted in Poland. > > > > http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/02/06/february_2008_web_server_sur > >vey.html > > Thanks for the heads-up, Mark! I haven't paid attention Netcraft's > web server surveys lately, but it's great that they mentioned us. > > It's stupid, but we could "game" the Netcraft survey pretty easily: > > 1) Become an ICANN accredited registrar. > 2) Offer cheap domain registration. > 3) Offer free domain parking/static web page hosting (great for domain > tasters) all on AOLserver. > > Suppose, in a few years, we could accumulate a few million domain > registrations, all parked on AOLserver. We could push ahead in the > Netcraft surveys--like all those useless placeholder Apache sites. > > As an aside, congratulation to all those folks in Poland who are doing > all that web hosting on AOLserver! Well done! > > -- Dossy -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
