CNET's Michael Horrowitz on Defensive Computing / Domain Names

Geeky stuff ... Cnet blog post by Michael Horowitz about domain name forwarding. (Direct navigation.)  If anybody knows about the power of a great domain name it's CNET  (News.com, Seach.com, Com.com) .. 

These names drive huge huge traffic for CNET..  Com.com triggers a huge flood of error traffic in older Microsoft browsers that forward slow resolving DNS lookups for any domain name over to Domain.com.com ..  CNET activated this wildcard a year or two ago and experienced a significant surge in traffic. 

The domain names this company owns are what sets it apart from any other tech news websites. Honorable nod to some of the authoring there.

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9800302-33.html?tag=nefd.blgs