Comments on: Google loses .com.au briefly

Millions of sites unattainable for a few hours from the Net's most popular search engine.

[M C]

Millions??

Again I'm underwhelmed by CNet's inattention to the medium they seek to cover. This article claims that Google's problem leaves "millions of sites unavailable," yet there are less than 500,000 .com.au domains, according to the body who licenses them. (http://www.auda.org.au/news.php?newsid=29)

Sure, some companies may have sub-sites ("subsite.domainname.com.au") but that's cutting it a bit fine. Accuracy is important if you want to be taken seriously in journalism.

[Andrew J Glina]

On the other hand...

ISPs have webhosting on subdomains. Adding those up (irregardless of the value of content) would come close. Besides, what is your angle; why do you care so much to check?

Disclaimer: I am Australian