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What’s wrong with M+M’s defensive reg report?

Kevin Murphy, February 28, 2010, Domain Policy

Minds + Machines has released a report into defensive domain name registrations by the largest 100 US companies. While I generally agree with its conclusions, I’m pretty certain I don’t trust the numbers.
The company, which has a financial interest in the new gTLD launches, plugged 1,043 Fortune 100 brands into DomainTools.com in order to figure out how many of them were registered.
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Maybe we should go back to .ARPA?

Kevin Murphy, February 27, 2010, Domain Tech

Let’s start at the beginning, shall we?
I registered DomainIncite.com today. In less than an hour, I had a fully functioning web site and email account, and my domain was apparently resolvable pretty much everywhere.
That’s pretty impressive speed. Ten years ago, it could have taken 24 hours to achieve the same result.
Care to guess how long it would have taken 25 years ago?
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