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Naive or not, that's besides the point. They key to what Richard said is that thankfully, we receive a recorded "error message" when we dial a wrong number. The same should be for DNS. In a very crude, cave man (or cave bear [cavebear.com]) sort of way, it makes sense to compare DNS to a telephone system. When you type in a domain name, your browser crunches a few things very rapidly by processing your "call" for the number associated with a name to one of the thirteen geographically located root servers. Either operator A through M respond, and provide the correct number, and the user's request is processed. It's really quite simple, again, in a crude way. :)
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DougDoug Mehus
http://doug.mehus.info/ [mehus.info]
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Re:What about telephone numbers
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"it makes sense to compare DNS to a telephone system"
It does not make sense to compare a PPC search engine to a telephone directory service.
Another thing that "cave men" do is to use the error message to determine the availability of a domain name. I agree, it is a dumb method, but there are a lot of people who do that.
Now, Verisign has its name being presented to those who happen upon unregistered domain names. Coincidentally, Verisign is in the domain name registration business.
Another telephone analogy is that of caller-ID. For spam-verification software which checks the existence of a domain name prior to allowing email from that domain to pass through (and email is a more heavily-used internet service than web browsing), what we have here is the analogy of caller-ID spoofing. I'm not a telephone expert, but I doubt the telephone experts think that spoofing the origin of a call is a good idea in general.
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