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Re: Gail.com FAQ

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Why does the website get so many visits? Sorry for the dumb question I think I miss a reference here.

It seems likely that most visitors simply mistype gmail.com and end up visiting gail.com by mistake.

I see. That makes sense. On a related note, I recall that when Gmail came out another domain (Gamil.com) had a funny banner on top saying:"Gamil is not Gmail, but we're glad you're here!".

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#142
post #127

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My only complaint is it goes full wide screen. If he put a limit on the width the text expands to so it was readable on large screens that would be perfect.

No, the page layout is likely designed to be readable on anything that speaks HTTP. Including text-based browsers, mobile devices with low bandwidth and performance, screen readers, etc. All you have to do to get the text width you want is resize your browser window.

None of those things are harmed by putting a maxwidth that limits the line length to something reasonable for the viewport size.

Re: Gail.com FAQ

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The author certainly claims to be Gail themselves; note the reference to “my husband”

Ok i could be wrong. Was commenting after reading arbitration documents where respondent is referred as "The Respondent is Kevin Watson" https://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2006/d200... "The Respondent registered the domain name on April 4, 1996, named after his wife’s given name, as a birthday present for his wife. " So yes, looks like was wrong. It's his wife's site (A gift)

Yes, that's what the link that you're commenting on says. You didn't need to do any more research, especially not into arbitration documents.

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#146

GAIL[1] is also the name of a publicly traded Indian Oil Company. Just like most pre-Internet companies that "comes online", they also went with gailonline.com just like how SBI went with sbionline.com. However, for SBI, I saw recently that they have become pretty Internet savvy -- they own the `.sbi` TLD. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAIL

> how SBI went with sbionline.com It's actually onlinesbi.com

It now forwards to onlinesbi.sbi SBI Bank owns the tld .sbi

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#148
Fun story. Back in day when bitflip domain research was released, I immediately offered it as a service to our customers. Register all available likely typos and bitflips. Computers flip dns lookip bits /surprisingly/ often. Run email, web, and other collectors. See what you get. We got so much legit data. The real good was owning those domains, but it was amazing to see how much compromising and sensitive data we collected for customers over the years. Widespread TLS helps, but it turns out they just want valid TLS… so for some of the hottest domains we would get certs for email, etc. fun stuff. You can still do this today, especially for newer companies.

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#149

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An email i got from the moderators Hi weatherlight, The submission "Gail.com FAQ" that you posted to Hacker News in September 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20956204) looks good, but didn't get much attention. Would you care to repost it? You can do so using this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/repost?[REDACTED]. If you use the same account (weatherlight), title, and URL, the software will give the rep…

Wasn’t suggesting you did anything wrong! Just pointing folks to other worthwhile discussions/comments.

Sorry! and no worries!
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