I agree that they should shoot for opening up the number of working distributions as a primary goal. But, I would like to add that partnerships like this are incredibly exciting. Maybe additional bundles like this should be used and rather than searching for that "killer app" we should more realistically look for that "killer package."
I found this little chart on the side of the article rather interesting and thought I would pass it along for those that missed it.
_____Domain Registrations_____ Largest Internet Domains, By Total Registrations .com 21,351,928 .de (Germany) 5,646,997 .net 3,623,412 .uk (Britain) 3,572,603 .org 2,329,726
Sources: SnapNames, Nominet UK, DENIC.de Note: SnapNames numbers represent registrations through May
I had no idea that.de was almost the size of.net and.org combined!
I found this little chart on the side of the article rather interesting and thought I would pass it along for those that missed it.
_____Domain Registrations_____
Largest Internet Domains, By Total Registrations.com 21,351,928.de (Germany) 5,646,997.net 3,623,412.uk (Britain) 3,572,603.org 2,329,726
Sources: SnapNames, Nominet UK, DENIC.de
Note: SnapNames numbers represent registrations through May
I had no idea that.de was almost the size of.net and.org combined!
I used AOL for nearly 5 years. I am not a fan of their service, but still maintain an account because my girlfriend prefers it. I used to do tech support at a call center that supported several major laptop manufacturers. Every night I would fight the very problems (not as many as an ISP fights I'm sure) described in this suit and then go home and sign onto AOL myself. However, I had several reasons:
1. I'm not sure of the limit today, but they used to allow you to send up to 35 meg attachments you could also do this multiple times. On more than one occasion I had over 100 meg in my inbox.
2. they were very early in their implementation of web based email (yes, i used hotmail and places like that too in the past, but the file size limitation often got in the way.)
3. In the old days (I definately can't say this anymore) the junk mail, for some reason, seemed to be a lot less on that account compared to hotmail, yahoo, etc.
4. Uptime - i don't think i can remember a time that the main AOL service being down caused any problems for me.
5. admittedly, dial-up to AOL can be somewhat problematic depending on the quality of the local number, but AOL combined with a local ISP for a BYOA (bring your own access) account provided a lot of flexibility.
6. this point is not near as valid as it used to be, but the AOL only content that used to be offered was much higher quality overall than a lot of what was offered on the internet in general. (I'm pretty sure I'm going to hear about this one)
My main point in all of this is not to say AOL is great... far from it. I am saying that it has merits that can benefit the advanced user as well as the novice user that thinks AOL is the entire internet.
anyone remember the commecial where the guy says "My friend told me to get AOL, I said why I've already got a computer." that one always cracked me up:)
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I agree that they should shoot for opening up the number of working distributions as a primary goal. But, I would like to add that partnerships like this are incredibly exciting. Maybe additional bundles like this should be used and rather than searching for that "killer app" we should more realistically look for that "killer package."
I found this little chart on the side of the article rather interesting and thought I would pass it along for those that missed it.
.com 21,351,928
.de (Germany) 5,646,997
.net 3,623,412
.uk (Britain) 3,572,603
.org 2,329,726
.de was almost the size of .net and .org combined!
_____Domain Registrations_____
Largest Internet Domains, By Total Registrations
Sources: SnapNames, Nominet UK, DENIC.de
Note: SnapNames numbers represent registrations through May
I had no idea that
I found this little chart on the side of the article rather interesting and thought I would pass it along for those that missed it. _____Domain Registrations_____ Largest Internet Domains, By Total Registrations .com 21,351,928 .de (Germany) 5,646,997 .net 3,623,412 .uk (Britain) 3,572,603 .org 2,329,726
Sources: SnapNames, Nominet UK, DENIC.de
Note: SnapNames numbers represent registrations through May
I had no idea that .de was almost the size of .net and .org combined!
I used AOL for nearly 5 years. I am not a fan of their service, but still maintain an account because my girlfriend prefers it. I used to do tech support at a call center that supported several major laptop manufacturers. Every night I would fight the very problems (not as many as an ISP fights I'm sure) described in this suit and then go home and sign onto AOL myself. However, I had several reasons:
1. I'm not sure of the limit today, but they used to allow you to send up to 35 meg attachments you could also do this multiple times. On more than one occasion I had over 100 meg in my inbox.
2. they were very early in their implementation of web based email (yes, i used hotmail and places like that too in the past, but the file size limitation often got in the way.)
3. In the old days (I definately can't say this anymore) the junk mail, for some reason, seemed to be a lot less on that account compared to hotmail, yahoo, etc.
4. Uptime - i don't think i can remember a time that the main AOL service being down caused any problems for me.
5. admittedly, dial-up to AOL can be somewhat problematic depending on the quality of the local number, but AOL combined with a local ISP for a BYOA (bring your own access) account provided a lot of flexibility.
6. this point is not near as valid as it used to be, but the AOL only content that used to be offered was much higher quality overall than a lot of what was offered on the internet in general. (I'm pretty sure I'm going to hear about this one)
My main point in all of this is not to say AOL is great... far from it. I am saying that it has merits that can benefit the advanced user as well as the novice user that thinks AOL is the entire internet.
anyone remember the commecial where the guy says "My friend told me to get AOL, I said why I've already got a computer."
that one always cracked me up:)