http://opensourceparking.com/

[Peter]

On Sun, 7 May 2006, PW Armstrong wrote:

> have I been asleep at the switch?  (I know that's a dangerous question ask, 
> no need to answer)
>
> "Recently, the domain name registrar GoDaddy, used by many domain resellers, 
> switched its domain parking host from Apache to a Microsoft server. GoDaddy 
> has 4.5 Million parked domains, and this resulted in a 5% market-share shift 
> from Apache to Microsoft IIS in the Netcraft report. Parked sites don't have 
> content, so this is only an "appearance" change. It's said that Microsoft 
> offers the largest domain registrars a lot of money to do this. And of course 
> figures influence managers, whether they are real or not."
> http://technocrat.net/d/2006/4/10/2276

Old news. This was on Slashdot and on this list. They switched a server 
because it sees low load presumably. This resulted in a lot of parked 
domains switching from Apache to W* servers, and this influenced the 
statistics which clueless people consult when making decisions.

Peter
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