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March Netcraft survey

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the surveying-the-web dept.

awptic writes "The March Netcraft survey is out. Among the changes is a 4% increase in the number of websites running IIS, primarily due, however, to register.com's domain name parking service switching to mostly IIS servers, which account for over 2 million of the 38 million sites surveyed. Ironically, a large number of the websites were defaced shortly thereafter."

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  1. Not just register.com by Snowfox · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not just register.com -- NetSol also moved much of its operations from UNIX systems to Windows systems, if you didn't have enough reason to question the sanity of NetSol already...

  2. Hacked Servers Outsourced to Interland by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to the Security Focus article the affected parking servers had been outsourced to Interland. Not really surprising, since Interland has left their servers vulnerable to various vulnerabilities for months at times.

  3. Server share data for working sites by rkgmd · · Score: 5, Informative

    This data for *active* web servers (about 6 million total) seems to give a different picture---while apache lost 0.16% and IIS gained 0.40%, long-term (over the last year) apache grew, while IIS fell. Also, extrapolated future failure and growth rates seems to indicate that one is better off betting on apache than on IIS.

  4. VeriSign != Register.com by pclinger · · Score: 5, Informative

    The story points out that Register.com switched to IIS. And then the idiot who submitted the story points to an article "Hackers Deface Thousands Of Domains Parked At Verisign" (http://online.securityfocus.com/news/357) about domains getting hacked from Verisign, trying to make some connection there. NetSol is now known as Verisign. Register.com is not Verisign. They are two separate companies. Now, lets review:

    Register.com switches to IIS
    Verisign domains get hacked

    Connection? None. So don't post anything that tries to make that connection.

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    1. Re:VeriSign != Register.com by T-Punkt · · Score: 5, Informative

      Read the Netcraft survey as well---the summary at /. ist not correct, Register.com and Network Solution switched to IIS.

  5. Gotta check those facts by xrayspx · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not Register.com, Verisign/NetSol. The domains were parked at InterLand.

    Granted, I knew all that before I read this article, but hey, the securityfocus article that was linked had all this information, would have been 4 seconds of Journalistic Research.

    I'm too ornery in the morning. In any case, really big mass-defacement, really easily accomplished.

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