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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. Here's what is next... by aardwolf64 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here's what is next:

    A website listing the 10 largest companies with Administrator password == NULL

    Bleh... I've used Netcraft. It's pretty nice... you can find out what version of different software a webserver is running. Web pages like this though should emphasize how important it is to stay on top of the latest bugfixes... As often as exploits get posted for now outdated versions of software, not keeping things up-to-date is like hanging a "HackMePlease" sign on your back.

  2. People are inherently stupid by Kwikymart · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stupid people!

    Every day we hear about how companies choose to implement MS solutions (adds more to the problem, however) rather than better BSD/Linux solutions. "But it's cheaper to employ an MCSE!"... That may be so, but this route should only be taken if you dont care about the company's data.

    Fucking braindead corporations; spend the extra 15 thousand / year and protect your freaking data instead of throwing away your secrets. It's going to be cheaper down the road when you have to hire lawyers to start sueing people or lose business because people won't trust your braindead corporation with their credit cards.

    --

    Buying a Dell computer is equivalent to dropping the soap in a prison shower.
  3. Hmm, I don't think that's what MS/Unisys meant... by UsonianAutomatic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...when they said "We Have the Way Out!"

    -1 Redundant, but isn't it interesting that the new anti-Unix site isn't among that 4% IIS increase (and not hacked).

  4. Parked Domains by Thrikreen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wonder, even though it's supposed to be a random survey, should there be allowances given for said parked/cybersquatted domains to not factor as much into the percentages? Or another page listing the compared results.

    I mean, most of them would have some sort of template along the lines of "This domain at www.suchandsuch.com is currently Under Construction! / Available for Sale!". Wouldn't be hard to figure out some sort of % similar to another page rating (i.e. diff them and see how many lines are different).

    Granted, it does mean you have to download the page (frames and popups would be annoying though) and waste some CPU cycles comparing the differences, but it would be interesting seeing how many websites of said survey are, say, 95% or higher similar to each other.