[DNS] Australia's luckiest man?

From: Deus Ex Machina <vicc§cia.com.au> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:29:24 +1000 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Sat Sep 09 2017 - 22:00:08 UTC

Edwin Groothuis [edwin&#167;mavetju.org] wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:56:18PM +0800, doug&#167;clarity.com.au wrote:
> > Now if the next domain casino had say 100 entries then
> > again 10/100 = .1 or 10 percent etc. Again not good, chance of
> > getting both is even smaller but wait there's more.
> 
> 10 percent on one attempt isn't good, but if you have enough attempts
> you will succeed sooner or later. So if he went for seventy domains
> and only got seven, then the 10% sounds reasonable.

There is nothing fishy about the result. youll find the odds and maths
add up quite fine.

privacy laws prevent me from commenting on specific applications, so dont bother asking.

Vic