Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog ICANN announces another chance to register for another top-level domain suffix -- .name. Perhaps someone could explain why there has to be a restriction on what top level domain suffixes are allowed? Monday
[August 10, 2001, 18:27]
What’s in a domain name?
Blog The top-level domain arena, of course this is the part of the domain name that comes after the last dot, could soon new hundreds of new internationalised options introduced. Or will that see plastic surgeons done out of the top-level domain they...
[August 13, 2007, 23:04]
Trouble in paradise -- McAfee warns of island hopping spam
Blog Using a lesser-known top level domain makes it harder to distinguish spam from legitimate e-mail by examining the links in the e-mails, according to McAfee. The trend was discovered when McAfee researchers noticed a significant increase in the use...
[November 1, 2006, 15:19]
.me TLD to launch Thursday
Blog Just had an email from one of my domain name registrars - apparently the .me top level domain will be opened up on Thursday. It's already been around for a couple of years, but only as Montenegro's country code.
[July 15, 2008, 12:59]
It’s all Greek, Persian, Tamil and Cyrillic Russian to me!
Blog You can also find it here http://idn.icann.org The 11 evaluation wikis will remain online until IDNs are fully implemented and the first top-level domain is introduced in the evaluation language. Web users across the planet can now play around with...
[October 20, 2007, 17:51]
Social networking federation: why not use .tel?
Blog The top level domain, which launched last year, is unique among TLDs in that it does not automatically redirect the web surfer anywhere — instead, it uses the DNS itself as a repository for the registrant's basic contact details, including social...
[September 18, 2009, 17:05]
ICANN sites hijacked?
Blog Just a day after ICANN opened up domain rules, a Turkish group of hackers has messed with some of the Internet body's sites, according to a report on Zone-H. Which makes you wonder: Once businesses are able to use any domain suffix, as approved...
[June 27, 2008, 16:39]
Friday
Blog You know how the Internet works -- find an address by looking up a domain name in a database, bung that address on the front of a chunk of data, and send the whole thing to your ISP. So top marks -- as always -- to Need To Know, that splendid proof...
[November 22, 2002, 17:08]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As part of the convoluted, byzantine dealings whereby it agreed to build stuff for Digital (before Digital became part of Compaq and Compaq decided it hated the name Digital so much it spent $5.5 million dollars on buying the www.altavista.com...
[August 1, 1998, 8:06]
