MetaFilter posts tagged with dns and brokenlink

gleuschk — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:10:40 -0800

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.)

RylandDotNet — Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:14:30 -0800

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.

Cobbler — Tue, 06 Mar 2001 14:13:52 -0800

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?

tiaka — Fri, 17 Nov 2000 05:31:22 -0800

johnsmith.name and many more silly new suffixes. Do we need this many? I have yet to see anything good with the previous additions, it all looks a bit like those http://take.me.to/, http://fly.to redirectional services.

netbros — Mon, 02 Oct 2000 20:49:01 -0800

Divas Defeat Goliath! The Digital Divas have been successful in their effort to get Microsoft to cease and desist use of the Digital Diva name.

DragonBoy — Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:25:44 -0800

Read the letter to Jeff Bezos here.

baylink — Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:07:09 -0800

So, how big did you say that app needed to be? Radsoft Labs knocks a Windows DNS client down from 3.5MB to 7*KB*. [Via RISKS Digest.]