[At-Large] domains don't matter, was ICANN Board Approves

[John Levine]

>> app for the web was and is search engines. These days I know a lot of
>> people whose home page is Google, and who have no idea what the difference
>> is between the Google search box and the browser address box.
>>
> Hi John.
>
> I don't think it's quite like that... yet.
>
> The existence of typo-squatting as a profitable endeavour provides at
> least some evidence that some significant component of the Internet
> still uses the address bar.

Ah, but type a word or two into the IE7 or Firefox address bar and if they 
don't resolve as a domain name, guess what happens -- the browser passes 
them to your favorite search engine.  People really don't know the 
difference, and the browsers encourage that confusion.  Hence the 
typosquatting basically steals a name out from what should have been a 
search that would offer spelling corrections.

R's,
John