Imagine a web where domains can end in just about any generic top-level domain (new gTLD), e.g. .metafilter. Well, that's soon a
reality:
The organization that oversees the Internet address system is preparing to open the floodgates to a nearly limitless selection of new website suffixes, including ones in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts. That could usher in the most sweeping transformation of the Domain Name System since its creation in the 1980s
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posted by Foci for Analysis
on Jun 18, 2011 -
103 comments
OpenDNS is an interesting idea -- take the basics of DNS,
add a bunch of features like caching servers, a phishing blacklist, and search engine fired off for misspelled domain names. Pretty handy and nice to see a service pop up where I thought browsers would someday fix (like typos). No software to install, just point your DNS at their IPs.
posted by mathowie
on Jul 19, 2006 -
53 comments
On Saturday owners of .org domains will have a new registry, the Public Interest Registry. After winning the .org registry away from Verisign, PIR (a creation of the Internet Society (
ISOC)) promises to be
more responsive to the non-commercial needs of Internet users, which is ostensibly what the .org is all about. Info from ISOC on the bid and other related items
here, some grumbling about ISOC's methods by the losing bidders
here. Will .org return to its roots with this change, or business as usual?
posted by WolfDaddy
on Jan 22, 2003 -
16 comments
I generally give little thought to how the Internet works, as long as it does work. Well, on Monday, 9 of the
13 "root servers" that manage traffic on the Internet were
hit with a denial of service attack for about an hour. You can see the spike in traffic on one of the servers in
this graph. All this made me think about the fragility of the Internet and what I would do with myself if the Internet got knocked out, say, for a matter of days. Maybe I would finally learn to cook something besides pasta... What would you do?
posted by epimorph
on Oct 23, 2002 -
37 comments
ICANN disses the
the dot. The guy who runs the
Internet Multicasting Service teamed up with the guy who runs the
Internet Software Consortium and submitted a proposal to mange the .ORG registry. ICANN's conslutants [sic]
dumped on the proposal (300KB PDF) claiming it is among the worst proposals
from a technical standpoint. Mind you, ISC produces the software that runs the DNS and actually operates root and top-level servers. And ICANN thinks they lack the technical mojo? Wow! Are we all ready to admit that ICANN is completely corrupt and beyond saving? More info
here. (via
IP)
posted by chipr
on Aug 31, 2002 -
12 comments
The hoopla gets deeper. Upon learning that "Sarah Hubert" was a non-person, registrar
AITDomains simply canceled the registration to hoopla.com, releasing it into the wild, where it was picked up by someone from Taiwan. They gave no notice to Leslie or anyone else that I can tell, so that she had no opportunity to grab the name back for herself.
posted by mikewas
on Jun 11, 2002 -
7 comments
The ThreeRing Web Mapping project adds a dot to a blank canvas showing your geographic location (or that of your ISP, as best it can guess based on your IP address). They've also got a code snippet to put on your own site that automagically adds your visitors to the map. The US is already clearly defined, Europe is getting there, and Oceania is coming into view. (They've also got one of them
Tag-Board thingies, which is painful to read for any length of time.)
posted by gleuschk
on Apr 5, 2002 -
26 comments
While you might want to think so none of the stories on this site are jokes. Ever since
Network Solutions was assimilated by
Verisign ("Trust is the foundation of every human relationship"), their tactics to obtain (or retain) your business have gotten sneakier. Be warned, non-Verisign domain registrants, you may get an invoice from Verisign that looks like
this. Ethical? Hardly. Try as I might, I can't find anyone trying to stop Verisign from these practices. I'm beginning to think Verisign is really
run by these folks.
By the way, this is my first post. Please be
gentle.
posted by WolfDaddy
on Apr 1, 2002 -
15 comments
Register International Domain Names such as "http://www.nërd.com", which is actually available. (Note the umlaut on the e.) If you've been looking for an interesting domain name, only to find that they've all been registered, this may be just the ticket.
posted by fnirt
on Jan 4, 2002 -
11 comments
Apparently wildcard DNS is a trademark violation now. Yahoo is suing the owner of the
sex.com domain, because the latter uses wildcard DNS. This means that if you type "yahoo.sex.com" (or "anything.sex.com", for that matter) in your browser, you get taken to sex.com's main site. Yahoo is suing because that it could cause the public to mistakenly believe that the sex site "is connected with, sponsored by, or approved in some way by Yahoo," and therefore constitutes trademark infringement.
posted by RylandDotNet
on Aug 24, 2001 -
19 comments
Zeldman's seemingly constant problems with Network Solutions continue. It raises two questions for me. 1. Why wouldn't he change the domain and/or name rather cease publication of one of the best independant publications on the web? and 2. How come they haven't overhauled the domain registration system to have other methods for verification? At the company where I work we have over 50 domains and we're constantly having problems with peoples' names who are long since gone being on the registration and not being able to remove them. Hope it works out for him, I couldn't live without my ALA fix.
posted by abosio
on Jun 27, 2001 -
37 comments
Following the
earlier post regarding cheap domain names, does anyone know anything about .eu.com domains? I've found
one site offering them, but are they actually available yet? What's the story?
posted by Cobbler
on Mar 6, 2001 -
5 comments
New.net lauched today, with their attempt to create their own TLD registrar that seems like a bastardization of DNS. Most people will need to
download a plugin, is there any chance this could be successful? Is ICANN doing anything to stop them or will they just die on their own?
posted by mathowie
on Mar 5, 2001 -
8 comments
Who are these guys? And why have they registered a thousand or more domains, only to have them all point at the same generic portal? I bumped into them three times today while doing searches for
DHTML,
Budd Uggly, and
boxing. No banners, no logo, no company info, and search results are a framed page from goto.com. Strange.
posted by nikzhowz
on Nov 18, 2000 -
12 comments
All of this talk about madonna.com and string.com seems to me to be just a mad scramble to grab a 'scarce' resource (ie. the .com TLD). The only problem is that the scarcity is completely artificial.
Networking expert and lawyer
Karl Auerbach has just been elected to ICANN as the US at-large rep on a platform of reducing ICANN's role from it current one as a overreaching international law making body.
He says that the DNS system is capable of handling far more than just a few top-level domains like .com, .org, .net, .uk, .au etc. He says it could handle
millions.
posted by lagado
on Oct 17, 2000 -
5 comments
Today I was once again reminded why I hate
domain squatters so much. I wanted to find the website for
Scream 3, but
scream3.com is some half-assed hacked site. Every domain with "scream3" in it
seems to be taken (some by Miramax), but none of them resolve to a movie site. The only one that looks halfway official is
in french. Here it is, opening weekend, and there doesn't seem to be an official site up that I can use.
posted by mathowie
on Feb 6, 2000 -
3 comments
