On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, David Hillary wrote:
> Mark's DNS idea is actually quite a dumb idea because people mistype word as > much or more often than numbers. Do they? Maybe you do. Maybe most other people don't. If domain names didn't exist and people had to access everything via IP addresses my intuition tells me there would be alot more typos happening. > People guess words when searching, but they > don't guess numbers. When it comes to moving money, they won't "guess", they'll do a lookup first. So while I have to disagree with you that more typos will happen under a DNS-based scheme, you do (and somebody else did in another post) raise the question of "typo-squatting", that is unscrupulous types using "off-by-one" DNS strings to capture whatever typo traffic there is. That can't be done now under the numeric system because you can't pick your numbers, they are assigned. -mark --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
