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The .su Boom
Tucked away in one of the Web's dark corners, the Soviet Union continues to thrive as an internationally recognized entity. The Soviet Union has been history for going on 17 years now, but there is...
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Al Gore Wants a .Eco Web Domain
Registration fees for environmentally certified websites to go to green causes Al Gore and his philanthropic organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection, support creating a .eco domain to...
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A New Type of Domain Name, A New Waste of Money
Gadgets The Grouse has his doubts about the proposed .eco top-level domain Earlier this month, an unknown little startup grabbed big headlines when it received Al "Internet Earth Soldier" Gore's...
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First Arabic Language Domain Names Go Live, Introducing Non-Latin Characters...
Gadgets The first Arabic Internet addresses went live this week, in the first major change to the domain name system since its creation. Domain names in Arabic were added for Egypt,… The first Arabic...
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New Wave of Domain Names Approved, Could Include Everything From .Apple to...
Technology ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, decided today to allow a whole new wave of domain names, far beyond the usual usual suspects (.com, .net,… ICANN, the...
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'Donuts Inc.' Accused Of Fueling Cybersquatting After Bidding $56 Million For...
Technology The small company put millions into locking down more than 300 new-suffix domains like .movie and .buy. Cue messy legal squabble. When the so-called top-level domain names--with suffixes...
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Amazon.com To Battle Governments Of Brazil And Peru For The .Amazon Domain
Technology Should http://www.home.amazon/ teach you about piranhas, or let you buy bulk toilet paper? In 2011, ICANN, the organization in charge of the internet's domain names, decided to open up the...
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Top-Level Domains Like ".sexy" Are Landing Next Week
Science The news will likely set off a ".buzz" amongst the internet-savvy. It's been in the works for years, but the largest-ever expansion of the domain name system is now upon us. By Feb. 4, you'll...
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