How you manage to make ICANN's claims of a disinterested public into a
William X. Walsh website promo campaign is trully glorious to behold.
On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> ICANN's MAC and staff have tried to portray the Internet Community as
> disinterested and lacking motivation to be informed and be a part of the
> process.
>
> An experience of mine over the last several weeks has shown me that this claim
> has no real factual basis, and is instead nothing more than an assumption.
>
> As many of you know, I have been running a website at www.dnspolicy.com for the
> last several weeks. In the initial days, I saw from my logs and statistics
> package that several hundred people were visiting every day, and that many of
> them were visiting more than once each day. On average they would view the
> front page and 1-3 internal article pages.
>
> In the last 3 weeks, for several reasons I will elaborate on later, the site
> has seen a vastly higher number of unique visitors and page views. The
> average daily unique visitors has been over 1,200, with approximately 1,400
> average unique "visits" meaning that some of these 1,200 were coming in and
> visiting more times. A visit is counted as an additional visit when they
> return after a 30 minute period of not accessing the site.
>
> The average page views have been around the same per person, with the daily
> average of page views now exceeding 3,500. (Note, these are page views, not
> file hits, for those that know the difference).
>
> The reasons for the site becoming well used are many, I believe. One is that
> I have seen a great increase in the number of sites that are linking to the
> site, and it has been mentioned in two online news articles, as well as a
> couple other "columns" and features on news related sites. This has spread
> awareness of the existance of the site. Another phenomena that has resulted
> in the strong traffic is the existence of a "back end" file access so that
> portal sites which provide customized pages for their users with collections of
> information from sites around the internet can provide the option of people to
> include the headlines and links to the articles on their "portal" page. I
> never realized how many of these there were, or the diversity in their target
> usergroups, until now. They include sites that cater to technically advanced
> users, to business people using their Palm Pilots to keep current on the
> issues, to relative newbies who like the easy of having all the information at
> one location such as Netscape's Netcenter. These have enabled people to make
> this site, and other sites that have content of interest to them, a part of
> their daily net routine, and to quickly see a quick summary of what content is
> available there on any given day.
>
> In short, I think that the fact that approximately 1,200 unique people make use
> of a site with such a narrow focus as this one on any given day, after the site
> only being really operational for only 6 weeks, shows that the interest in this
> process, and in the many facets that surround it, is much higher than ICANN
> would have us believe.
>
> This site has mainly been used by people for whom following the lists on the
> subjects, or being active in the forums, is not an option or would be too much
> for them. ICANN's use of the mailing list numbers to come to some conclusion
> about interest was faulty.
>
> But of course, they won't admit that, and will instead try and continue to
> justify their attempts at making a public membership impotent within their
> structure.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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> William X. Walsh - DSo Internet Services
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