Comments on: In the world of DNS servers, US is king http://gigaom.com/2007/04/25/in-the-world-of-dns-servers-us-is-king/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Suresh Ramasubramanian http://gigaom.com/2007/04/25/in-the-world-of-dns-servers-us-is-king/#comment-168798 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:13:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/in-the-world-of-dns-servers-us-is-king/#comment-168798 Y’know, Om .. most of the top DNS servers (by that, I assume you mean “nameservers”) are controlled by so-called “domain tasters”, or as Godaddy’s Bob Parsons prefers it, “domain kiters”
http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html

Kiters register, drop and then re-register hundreds of thousands of domains at a time .. all to milk them for pay per click traffic and arbitrage domain renewal fees. And possibly sell one of those squatted domain names to some poor schlub who actually wants it but is simply human rather than an automated script at a tasting company.

–srs

]]> By: Eric Lyons http://gigaom.com/2007/04/25/in-the-world-of-dns-servers-us-is-king/#comment-168797 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:00:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/in-the-world-of-dns-servers-us-is-king/#comment-168797 It’s more flawed than that. Their basis is ‘hosted domain names’, and 90% of .com domains receive somewhere between zero and marginal traffic. Thus, this is more a measure of where speculators host/buy their domains, and nothing else.

]]> By: Kurt Gooden http://gigaom.com/2007/04/25/in-the-world-of-dns-servers-us-is-king/#comment-168796 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:33:52 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/in-the-world-of-dns-servers-us-is-king/#comment-168796 I noticed the referenced article only included .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info TLDs. Without ccTLDs (country specific), the conclusion that the US is king is based on pretty weak data. I am not saying it would not prove to be if the were included, but this just seems horribly incomplete.

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