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ii. Selected Other Domains
These domains also had entirely inaccessible URLs in our testing.
Figure 20 Selected Domains With No Accessible URLs
Domain
Inaccessible URLs
http://web.amnesty.org
5
http://www.amnesty.org
4
http://www.amnesty.org.uk
3
http://members.tripod.com
13
http://members.lycos.co.uk
10
http://www.angelfire.com
8
http://hk.geocities.com
5
http://www.salon.com
4
http://[blogname].blogspot.com
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iii. Selected Partially Accessible Domains
Figure 21 Selected Domains With Some Accessible and Some Inaccessible URLs
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Domain
Inaccessible URLs
Accessible URLs
http://members.aol.com
4
8
http://www.fofg.org
3
7
http://edition.cnn.com
4
6
http://taiwansecurity.org
2
6
http://www.asiaweek.com
1
6
http://www.cnn.com
16
2
http://www.time.com
10
1
http://www.yale.edu
3
1
http://www.gluckman.com
2
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The cause for the mixed results in these domains is not always evident. Some results are easily
explained: the accessible URL in the www.yale.edu domain was Yale University's home page, while the
inaccessible URLs were related to the Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) movement, or to relations between China
and Taiwan. However, there appears to be little semantic difference between accessible and inaccessible
content in the www.fofg.org or edition.cnn.com domains. In addition, while most inaccessible URLs in
the members.aol.com previously hosted content on the Inner Mongolian People's Party, an opposition
political movement, there were inconsistent results for two different URLs leading to the same content:
the URL http://members.aol.com/imppsite/ was accessible, while another URL resolving to the same
page, http://members.aol.com/imppsite/index.htm, was not.
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See Appendix 3 for a list of all URLs tested in these domains and their status (accessible or inaccessible).
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