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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by windsurfer on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @06:12PM (#564255) 

  17. http://www.miibeian.gov.cn/
I have honestly never heard of this site. And it's number 17.
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by kierank on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @06:19PM (#564263)
It's the link to a Chinese Government Department that all websites in China had to register with (and link to I believe).
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by chaosmachine on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @06:45PM (#564296)
Wow, that's one way to get pagerank..
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by albertcardona on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @06:21PM (#564266)
Out of 7000 million people in the world, at least 1200 are related to a .cn (china) domain. You may not be one of them.
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by pg on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @05:51PM (#564234)
Strange list. Does anyone know what criteria they used?
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by blogimus on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @06:14PM (#564258)
ranked by the number of linking root domains

So I guess how many domains these domains link to.

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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by pg on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @07:18PM (#564331)
I would guess they mean domains that link to these.
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by blogimus on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @10:25PM (#564569)
Hmm, that's interesting. I take back my initial assumption. The link numbers on the second column (inbound) are too low for what I was thinking. My initial thoughts were that it was the other way around (the third column, outbound), that these sites were considered important because they're hubs that link out to n other sites. Maybe some combination of both, or even of all the numbers.
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by jwesley on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:37PM (#564438)
Finally, vindication that Geocities is indeed more important than Facebook.
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by slavox on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:12PM (#564393)
This isn't all true, What about the SSL providers that we hardwire in for security?

What about the Microsoft update domain.. And for that matter all automatic packaging systems

It is conceivable that if someone was to have enough access inside these services and then take over the domain they could cause havok!

But really that's just another alexa (:

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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by Brushfire on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @07:31PM (#564347)
# of links != importance

popular, maybe.

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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by kingnothing on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @11:19PM (#564631)
Here's the most important domains for me at this point in my life. (I'm just pointing out how subjective their list is.)

google.com

gmail.com

auburn.edu

news.ycombinator.com

reddit.com

slashdot.org

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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by dsil on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @09:05PM (#564475)
Google owns 3 of the top 6 - google, blogspot, and youtube
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by shellerik on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @09:02PM (#564471)
whitehouse.gov on the move up

most edus on the way down - a post ncaa tournament thing?

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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by vaksel on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:43PM (#564447)
why is adobe so high?
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by amanfredi on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:47PM (#564452)
My guess is people linking to "Get Adobe Reader."
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by vaksel on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:49PM (#564455)
oh yeah forgot about that
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Re:The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet by radley on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @08:57PM (#564469)
and macromedia.com is leftover from Flash installs...
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