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

[Evan Leibovitch]

John Levine wrote:
> 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.
But so many internet names, especially business names, are not
dictionary words. So conventional spelling checkers don't apply.

Until it became a household name Google would have failed most
spellcheckers. Perhaps a well-meaning search engine would send the user
to "googol.com" instead. I'm not sure if that's a better answer.

- Evan