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The 500 Most Important Domains on the Internet

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  17. http://www.miibeian.gov.cn/

I have honestly never heard of this site. And it's number 17.

It's the link to a Chinese Government Department that all websites in China had to register with (and link to I believe).

Wow, that's one way to get pagerank..

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.

Strange list. Does anyone know what criteria they used?

ranked by the number of linking root domains

So I guess how many domains these domains link to.

I would guess they mean domains that link to these.

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.

Finally, vindication that Geocities is indeed more important than Facebook.

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 (:

# of links != importance

popular, maybe.

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

Google owns 3 of the top 6 - google, blogspot, and youtube

whitehouse.gov on the move up

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

why is adobe so high?

My guess is people linking to "Get Adobe Reader."

oh yeah forgot about that

and macromedia.com is leftover from Flash installs...

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