Walt Mossberg – For iPad and Mobile Devices, a “Port” out of the Norm
To find a Web page you wanted in the pre-Google (GOOG) era, you often had to guess at its address. Was General Motors generalmotors.com, general-motors.com, or gm.com? This led to all kinds of trouble—a speculative bubble in domain names, huge legal battles over valuable addresses, and unseemly attempts to benefit from the confusion.
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