I don’t really damn Yahoo! (YHOO [disclosure: no position]) but I think I’ll go there less now.
Less is really none. I only ever used yahoo.com to test hotel internet connections. Sometimes if I used google.com and the hotel displayed a welcome page the DNS cache would get poisoned and google.com would become inaccessible. Thus I would check the connection with yahoo.com first because it didn’t matter if that domain became inaccessible.
Never mind the recent news about Microsoft (MSFT [no position]) and its spurned attempts to buy Yahoo! out. Never mind how strange it feels to use a word that ends with a punctuation mark, whether in the middle of a sentence or at the end of a non-exclaimed statement.
Yahoo! tricked me into reading part of an article that tells the sad, sad, sad story of a billionaire wife who was refused a divorce on lack of grounds. The assault on my masculinity can not be forgiven. In my defense, I just wanted to know the answer: “In some states, even if you want to divorce, the court won’t let you. Why?”
I clicked “Why?” and read half of the first page before I realized that the answer to my question was on another page and that I was reading Elle. I laughed out loud, took the screenshot and started blogging. Surely nobody will read about it on my blog. My masculinity is safe.
What domain should I use for testing hotel internet connections?
I’ll never look at you the same way again. You, the gun toting, bike riding cowboy with the great moustache. Reading Elle? I’m shocked!
Try linux.ie – that’s my usual domain for testing these things!
I use dell.com. Dell’s primary site also responds to ICMP (ping) which is handy.
HA! I’ve never read Elle in my life, but my boyfriend has. I’m telling everyone!
I’ve always used sf.net — save a keystroke, save a coy boy.