Re: bit.ly urls

On Sat, July 23, 2011 06:23, JC Dill wrote:
> On 22/07/11 11:35 PM, Kent Crispin wrote:

>> No incentive whatsoever for a registrar to do this.  A registrar only
>> registers
>> domains in some TLDs, not all TLDs.
>
> That's like saying there's no incentive to provide search results for
> sites that aren't within your domain or where you don't place ads.

Some additional detail:

The incentives that apply to google are not particularly compelling for
registrars, because they are actually doing different things, and the business
environment is very different.

Google crawls the web to constantly refresh it's internal database; the data
displayed is always out of date, and aging.  On the other hand, when you are
checking if a domain name is available, the primary criteria is whether the name
is available now.

Also, the underlying search environment is very different.  A web spider
traverses public links in data that people are frequently *hoping* will be
prominently displayed in the search engines.  OTOH, checking for name
availability is done using different protocols, some of them under costly
contractual constraints.  Registrars and registries are actively hostile to data
miners, and almost all of them rate limit queries.



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