On 25 Jan 01, Aeon scribbled a note about Re: Domain Abuse (was RE: [ogf-d20-:

> Actually, redirects can cause quite a problem for people who aren't
> totally familiar with web browsers. Most current versions of Internet
> Explorer and Netscape make a "best guess" at web addresses you've visted,
> autocompleting them. This means that if someone were to visit foo.org and
> foo.com, the next time they typed "foo" in the address bar, the browser
> would autocomplete "foo.com". Thus, foo.com will get more attention than
> foo.org by default.

Actually, most of the web browsers now  will give you a list to 
select from containing what you have already typed if there is more 
than one address with what you have partially typed (as long as 
you have typed that address before)


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