domain names in comment and analysis
Analysis: The new Internet order
Comment Agencies that administer the domain names for individual countries should form an Iana Names Council that makes policy for generic domains such as .com, .net and .org, as well as their... [13 Aug 1998]
Icann, you can, we can
Comment Responsible for assigning top level domain names, it has the potential to resolve intellectual property and copyright disputes, the bane of a thriving online economy. Icann (the Internet Corporation for... [30 Jun 2000]
Online cheaters beware
Comment The DNS servers are used to connect domain names with numeric IP addresses (eg.of the various servers and networks that make up Microsoft's Web presence. Tuesday (PST), a Microsoft technician made a... [26 Jan 2001]
Your password's the key to your soul
Comment Most (47 per cent) fall into the 'Family' group, choosing their own name or nickname, or the names of their partners, children or pets. Then there are the 'Fans' - those who pick the names of sports... [24 Aug 2001]
Devil's Advocate: Software never changes
Comment Using names in programs that referred to the problem domain was helpful but also turned out to be tricky. Freedom to use meaningful words as identifiers encouraged people to write programs in terms that... [16 Sep 2003]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for mobile search
Comment While search is one way to help users find content, another is to give meaningful names to mobile web addresses. The organisation putting its weight behind the .mobi domain, mTLD (Mobile Top Level... [13 Apr 2006]
The best of 'Reader Comments': Letsbuyit.gone?
Comment This is the company that delivered Xmas trees in January and spent a fortune buying up all possible domain names like letsbuyshit.com, letsbuyitsucks.com, so no-one could complain about their dismal... [11 Jan 2001]
The web: A million miles from the vision
Comment Most data is reproduced in a simple page format copied from the offline world, companies fight over a limited supply of domain names, squabble over IP rights, and clash over proprietary systems. "We are... [06 Aug 2001]
A legal minefield called the internet
Comment Everything from business processes to logos to domain names. Doesn't it just seem like everything is getting so much harder in the online world? If you're of a nervous disposition you might want to brace... [14 Nov 2001]
Viral goings on - the new Claire Swire?
Comment But because of the people already selling Brian Tindle T-shirts, the domain names that have been bought and the football terrace chants ready to be sung, we reckon Mr Tindle could well be the web... [26 Jul 2002]
Inbox: Snooping bills, spam mountains, boring IT
Comment Company domain names of many small businesses are being blocked wholesale. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week.... [21 Aug 2008]
The Bloor Perspective: Java skills in demand, Corel's future with Inprise, and how to make the Web more relevant
Comment Content providers deliver a list of Web domain names, individual Web pages and specific keywords about which they can deliver added-value information. This figure is just ahead of demand for C++ skills. [14 Feb 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Coffee gets wired, the ebusiness porn model, and ASP SLAs
Comment The most obvious solution, the provision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) of the top-level domain .XXX or .adult allowing easy disabling of access to porn sites by... [14 Nov 2000]
Treading the legal minefield of message boards
Comment Since the initial outcry, Friends Reunited has bee forced to moderate its message boards - but while the names have changed, the problems have not gone away. By publishing the details in the public... [23 Jun 2003]
Open season
AS Analysis Gemma Simpson surveys the rankings for signs of the re-emergence of some household names. Stallman was also instrumental in pushing open source further into the public domain by developing a free... [12 Oct 2007]
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