On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:48:55 EDT, "Patrick W. Gilmore" said:
On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Larry Smith wrote:
Is it? If you type "fobar" and the domain does not exist, is it rude to return foobar? Or is it helpful?
Hmmm, while a "good" question - how about another example, someone mistypes whitehouse.gov - do you return the "real" whitehouse.gov or the whitehouse.com site ???
Note: "and the domain does not exist". Whitehouse.gov absolutely exists.
So... I enter "whitehorse.gov". Who wins, the guy at 1600 Pennsylvania, or the guy who's got whitehorse.com parked at GoDaddy? I can see this as being *loads* of fun in combination with browsers that auto-complete URLs for you (I know of at least one that will keep auto-completing a typo in preference to what you *wanted*. Blech. ;) "Where do you want to go today?" :)