Most people may use a search engine to go to their website of choice, but there are still some internet users who go to at least some of their websites by typing in the domain name, and the most popular type-in is Facebook.com followed by Google.com. And if you want to typosquat a domain name, the best domain name to have is Faceboook.com. These are the findings from six months of data collected and analysed by Chris Finke from his Firefox browser add-on URL Fixer. URL Fixer corrects typos in URLs that you enter in the address bar. For example, if you type google.con, it will correct it to google.com (asking first, if you enable confirmation). Finke analysed more than 7.5 million URL bar entries and he found that facebook.com is by far the most typed in domain name, three times more popular than the second most popular typed in domain – google.com, although google.com is still the most popular website. The reason for this is many people get to Google via the search or address bar in their browser rather than going to the Google website. Likewise, Yahoo is the seventh most popular address but is a top five domain. The top ten type-in domain names are facebook.com (with 9% of all type-ins) followed by google.com (3.3%), youtube.com (3.3%), gmail.com (1.1%), twitter.com (1.1%), mail.google.com (0.6%), yahoo.com (0.6%), hotmail.com (0.6%), amazon.com (0.5%) and reddit.com (0.5%). The most commonly mistyped domain names after faceboook.com are googe.com and goole.com. However as a proportion of typed-in domain names, very few end up at scam websites with only one type-in ending up at a scam site once for every 7,390 times the correct Facebook address is typed in. And .COM domains make up 63 per cent of all typed in top level domains followed by .ORG (4%), .NET (4%)and .DE (4%), reflecting both on some of the more popular TLDs and where Finke’s add-on is popular. Rounding out the top nine are .RU (2%) then .HU, .FR, co.uk and .BR (all 1%). The top 17 TLD typos are all variations of .com. In order of frequency, they are .com, .ocm, .con, .cmo, .copm, .xom, “.com,”, .vom, .comn, .com’, “.co,”, .comj, .coim, .cpm, .colm, .conm, and .coom. The most popular non-.com/.net/.org domains: google.de, vkontakte.ru (a Russian social network), and google.fr. Facebook and Google dominated worldwide according to Finke’s analysis with the only locales where neither Google nor Facebook control the most popular domain are ru-RU (Russia – vkontakte.ru), fi-FI (Finland – aapeli.com, a gaming website), ko-KR (Korea – fomos.kr, an e-sports website), and zh-CN (China – baidu.com). And finally in his analysis Finke notes that none of the domains with more than a 0.0005 per cent share are unregistered, indicating that this kind of usage data would not be very useful to a scammer or phisher looking for new domain names. The full analysis by Chris Finke is available at www.chrisfinke.com/2011/07/25/what-do-people-type-in-the-address-bar .

A graph shows the increasing popularity of EV SSL certificates since 2007 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Extended Validation SSL certificates account for only 2.3 percent of all valid third party certificates, according to a report released Monday by Netcraft . Netcraft’s April 2011 survey found a total of 38,966 valid EV certificates. According to Netcraft, most sites use domain validated certificates because they are cheaper

A graph shows the increasing popularity of EV SSL certificates since 2007 (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Extended Validation SSL certificates account for only 2.3 percent of all valid third party certificates, according to a report released Monday by Netcraft . Netcraft’s April 2011 survey found a total of 38,966 valid EV certificates. According to Netcraft, most sites use domain validated certificates because they are cheaper.

A screenshot of the Web Desktop’s “app grid” navigation (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — With the explosion of cloud technologies moving the industry forward, and with companies increasingly developing applications in the cloud, hosting providers, and the services that deal with the hosting business, are looking for new ways to use the cloud in distributing or supporting their services. Messaging and collaboration provider Open-Xchange ( www.open-xchange.com ) is just one of the many companies embracing the cloud

9:03pm UK, Thursday April 07, 2011 A graphic video of a prominent American businessman shooting a wild elephant has come back to haunt him after it was used to raise thousands for conservation efforts.

A screenshot from the draft of the DANE charter on the IETF website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to several reports published Monday, a few companies involved in Internet security are floating some new ideas around SSL security in the wake of the breach of several Comodo resellers that led to the issuing of certificates for several firms just over a week ago. In a post made Friday to the Google Online Security Blog , Ben Laurie of the Google Security Team described several of the efforts the search giant (and browser-builder) is involved in to help tighten security around domains and SSL certificates. The first is extending the usability of the Google Certificate Catalog, a database of records related to SSL certificates encountered by the company’s web crawlers.

A screenshot from the draft of the DANE charter on the IETF website (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — According to several reports published Monday, a few companies involved in Internet security are floating some new ideas around SSL security in the wake of the breach of several Comodo resellers that led to the issuing of certificates for several firms just over a week ago. In a post made Friday to the Google Online Security Blog , Ben Laurie of the Google Security Team described several of the efforts the search giant (and browser-builder) is involved in to help tighten security around domains and SSL certificates. The first is extending the usability of the Google Certificate Catalog, a database of records related to SSL certificates encountered by the company’s web crawlers