domains in comment and analysis
The Bloor Perspective: Future messaging, the forgotten DB and Microsoft's open source AV spoiler
Comment The communication devices that we use are not versatile enough to pull these different domains together. Integrating the communication domains will make life simpler but this requires more powerful terminals than today's desktop phone. [23 Jun 2003]
Chinese domain names - the best thing EVER to happen to business?
Comment The domains went on sale yesterday, 16 March. NeuStar, working with the Chinese authorities to administer the roll out of domains, is expecting massive demand. This Sunday the UK e-tail sector was presented with one of the best ever opportunities... [17 Mar 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft does CRM, the Liberty Alliance and Scient's nadir
Comment In other words, it's trying to produce a common, universally accepted method for identifying individuals online across multiple domains. Microsoft last week unveiled further details about its CRM product that should hit the shelves towards the end... [22 Jul 2002]
The latest big broadband idea
Comment Instead Alexander and his team have opted for a policy of aggregating local government spend to tempt service providers out of their city domains. E-minister Douglas Alexander jets off to sunny Spain today to meet his European counterparts and get... [21 Feb 2002]
Memo to domain name industry - SORT IT OUT
Comment This time it has run into trouble with Europe's country-code registries, the people who manage domains like dot-de, dot-fr and dot-uk. But with an increasing amount of money being spent on domains - not to mention the vast sums associated with... [09 Jan 2002]
How the e-tailers stole Christmas
Comment A recent study by Cyveillance found that more than 20 per cent of Europe's top domains use spawning techniques (pop-ups) or mouse-trapping tactics to keep visitors on their sites. You're either one of those people that finishes their Christmas... [14 Dec 2001]
CRM and ASP - welcome to TLA heaven
Comment In its early stages, CRM software vendors focused on integrating the three principal domains of activity - sales, service and marketing. Customer relationship management (CRM) is a great opportunity for application service providers (ASPs) but not... [26 Oct 2001]
Windows XP - a first glance
Comment A significant difference is the addition of domains which enable users to make changes from a server using a centralised network management tool. Clean and vivid. There, I've said it. These would be the best two words to describe the latest version... [22 Oct 2001]
Brussels and Geneva deciding what things are called - even on the web?
Comment In a separate move, European politicians spelled out plans to create a veto list of politically embarrassing dot-eu domains. Cybersquatting has always been an emotive issue. The idea that someone would maliciously register a domain name to injure... [06 Sep 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Cybernetic totalism, ASP comeback and Google's glory
Comment Basically, the Spielberg movie features a robotic boy named David who comes fully wired and under a factory warranty to love, a concept which overlaps the domains of the geeks and the theologians. Why is it that when it comes to a discussion of... [20 Aug 2001]
VeriSign enforces the Icann't party line
Comment Perhaps the dot-pissup and dot-brewery domains should be next. We're talking about VeriSign and Icann, the people who decide who gets to be a dot-com. They decide who's who and where to find them on the internet, and they're the nearest thing the... [25 May 2001]
Just For Fun: Extract 3 - The case for being open
Comment Now open source expanding beyond the technical and business domains. IBM is a company with a history of screwing people over. It made its money by getting a captive audience and making sure nobody else got a foothold. [16 May 2001]
Dot-shop: Is it just a dot-con?
Comment Having a limit on the number of top level domains may have been inconvenient, but it certainly was fun. Well, that looks like it's all about to end because new.net has set up a whole stack of very uninternet-style domains like dot-shop, dot-xxx... [07 Mar 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Novell's directory supremacy, CE's struggles, and the problem of Net taxation
Comment In contrast, Novell had NDS, which was just about the only technology available that could span a network and be used as a means of linking together all resources in all domains of the network. Many commentators believed that Novell was living... [21 Nov 1999]
What's in a name? ICANN and the Net name game
Comment NetBenefit's Robinson believes the WIPO dispute resolution could work for new domain name extensions created in the future, but warns that the organisation may have missed the boat on existing top level domains like .com and .net. [06 Sep 1999]
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