Tag Archives: DNS

Legacy

08-12-13 – 01:36:pm

AP:
George W. Bush’s presidential library domain name has been retrieved after a Web developing company accidentally let it expire — mdash;and it apparently came at a high price. Raleigh, N.C.-based Illuminati Karate paid less than $10 for the http://www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com domain name and sold it back earlier this year for $35,000 to the library’s contracted Web [...]

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Scaling problem

08-06-29 – 05:13:am

ICANN has a formidable track record of screwing up new new global top-level domains (gTLDs). The seven it approved in 2000 (.aero, .biz, .coop, .info, .museum, .name, and .pro) are a smorgasbord of ways to fail. The 2005 round (.cat, .jobs, .mobi, .tel, and .travel) isn’t looking much better—compared to, say, .biz, which is a [...]

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