Comments on: Just how (un)reliable is Netcraft? http://blog.wpkg.org/2007/09/20/just-how-unreliable-is-netcraft/ a technical IT blog Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:16:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: adminhttp://blog.wpkg.org/2007/09/20/just-how-unreliable-is-netcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-1494 admin Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:50:10 +0000 http://blog.wpkg.org/?p=7#comment-1494 @Eimar: that's all just theory.Just go to a wildcard address like http://b-l-a-h.godaddy.com, or better, to netcraft's website which is supposed to check it's uptime:http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=b-l-a-h.godaddy.comYou will Netcraft first registered it on 20-Sep-2007, on the day this blog post was published. Since then, Netcraft checked the uptime for this wildcard domain several times, and they didn't discard anything. @Eimar: that’s all just theory.

Just go to a wildcard address like http://b-l-a-h.godaddy.com, or better, to netcraft’s website which is supposed to check it’s uptime:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=b-l-a-h.godaddy.com

You will Netcraft first registered it on 20-Sep-2007, on the day this blog post was published. Since then, Netcraft checked the uptime for this wildcard domain several times, and they didn’t discard anything.

]]> By: Eimarhttp://blog.wpkg.org/2007/09/20/just-how-unreliable-is-netcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-1492 Eimar Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:59:01 +0000 http://blog.wpkg.org/?p=7#comment-1492 I don't know how successful they are but Netcraft claims they discard the wildcard dns domains:http://news.netcraft.com/active-sites.htmlFree online service providers, like blogging providers, will do something similar, with the variation that they usually provide their accounts hostnames under a common domain name, instead of separate domains; the domain under which these accounts occur often uses Wildcard DNS, and in some cases any hostname under the domain will return valid but computer-generated content, with the hostname taken to be as an account name and interpolated into the content. Hence it is important for the active sites methodology to discard the actual words in the page and focus instead on the page structure, as represented by the HTML tag structure. I don’t know how successful they are but Netcraft claims they discard the wildcard dns domains:

http://news.netcraft.com/active-sites.html

Free online service providers, like blogging providers, will do something similar, with the variation that they usually provide their accounts hostnames under a common domain name, instead of separate domains; the domain under which these accounts occur often uses Wildcard DNS, and in some cases any hostname under the domain will return valid but computer-generated content, with the hostname taken to be as an account name and interpolated into the content. Hence it is important for the active sites methodology to discard the actual words in the page and focus instead on the page structure, as represented by the HTML tag structure.

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