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Is Domain Speculation Bust?
The latest Netcraft survey is more interesting than usual, because it reports a drop in the total number of registered domain names, as well as a decreasing number of sites reachable overall by the survey. It's been a traumatic year in the tech world, but the drop in domain names goes back to domain name buy-ups of 1999 (and looks like it will accelerate the same way domain speculation did in 2000). All is not gloom, though, and the number of registered domain names is not the same as the number of active sites. The Netcraft site points out that "as domains bought for speculative reasons are abandoned, we can expect a higher proportion of sites to be active." Read the rest of the survey report for more interesting information on the state of the domain world.
You mean slashdot isnt going to rant about the trend of web servers used? Perhaps thats because lately the trend is Microsoft moving sharply up and Apache going slowly down. Just thought I'd point this out since slashdot used to have a post every other time a survey was out commenting on this.
Every site ever written (yes, even GOATSE.CX) is better than this website, im surprised OSDN is lame enough to host your site!
So fuck slashdot, its infested with trolls and flame baiters so run away before you become troll food!
Speaking of which -- VA Research Buys linux.com for $5 Million
The funny thing is that Microsoft bid up the price just to help accelerate the eventual doom of our fav Linux community website company.
Whenever I hear the word 'Innovation', I reach for my pistol.