Showing posts with label godaddy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label godaddy. Show all posts

22 July 2006

Google: Don't Be Evil - Unless It's Profitable

I knew that GoDaddy was evil, but this tie-up between the company and Google suggests that the latter is moving deep into the darkness too.

The scheme goes by the inglorious name of "CashParking": basically, it encourages scammers to register every possible domain name, and then load the home pages up with Google AdSense to generate some money from the poor individuals who wander there by mistake. As a result, it will reduce the overall attractiveness and value of the Web, and encourage even more of this behaviour. Typical parasitism, in other words.

Shame on you, Google: aren't your soaraway profits enough? (Via Searchblog.)

11 July 2006

Apache Starts to Patch the Holes

The latest Netcraft survey shows that Apache has pulled back some of the ground it lost to Microsoft's Web server last month. There have been some pretty massive swings recently, as the oscillations in the graph show: these are largely due to switches in the hosting sector, which can often involve millions of Internet names at a stroke. For example, Go Daddy moved over 1.6 million hostnames from Apache to Microsoft's IIS platform in June.

These new gains for Apache are important, because it suggests that Microsoft's relentless campaign to "convince" hosting companies to switch to its products (and who wouldn't love to be a fly on the wall for those conversations?) may finally have run out of steam. It will be interesting to see what happens next month.