Re: [IFWP] Market Structure Failure

[Greg Skinner]

Milton Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>It is truly bizarre that so much controversy and investment has gone into
>the DNS battle with so little information about how domain names are
>actually used.

>People assume--and it is basically an undocumented assumption, supported
>only by anecdotal evidence--that people guess the name and type it into
>their browser. That behavior would make a common domain name
>extraordinarily valuable. [...]

I don't know what studies have been made of domain name usage.  One study
could be to analyze the web log files of organizations who share the
same (or similar) name with other organizations in DNS, and count the
number of HTTP referrals that come from those other sites.  You could
then compare that with names that are known to be unique.

--gregbo