http://opensourceparking.com/

phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org
Mon May 8 01:09:44 UTC 2006


>
>> "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
>>

Microsoft could advertise that they support the most sites that have no
content and that no one accesses.  It would be interesting to see how they
characterize this as a challenging assignment.

Peter

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