George Kirikos wrote at 3:17 pm (-0700) on 13 6 2005: >Personally, I'm not sure why they did this, instead of using a >subdomain like http://objects.paypal.com/ . Yahoo does the same thing, >using yimg.com for many of their images. I suppose the extra domain can >have different TTL settings in the DNS, or reduce the load on their >main domain, or something....
With the zone nature of DNS neither of those should be an issue. I too would like to know the rationale for this. It seems stupid to me, since it creates extra hassle (or at least, suspicion) for the end-user for no apparent gain. My initial reaction upon reading this post was "what does Paypal object to?" -b -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
