Ron Jackson writes …
The U.S. Government has joined the chorus saying “Not so fast!” to ICANN’s plan to start rolling out an unlimited number of new global domain extensions next year. In a report just released this afternoon, Reuters reporter Kim Dixon said the U.S. Department of Commerce, the branch that oversees ICANN, sent a letter to the domain name system’s oversight body yesterday (Dec. 18) stating “It is unclear that the threshold question of whether the potential consumer benefits outweigh the potential costs has been adequately addressed.”
Commerce went on to say that ICANN needs to prove it can handle a potentially huge influx of applications and how it will police issues related to intellectual property rights. The government agency also said that any introduction of new names must not jeopardize the stability and structure of the domain name system. You can read the full text of the DOC letter here.
Domain Name Journal - The Lowdown from DNJournal.com
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Monday, July 07, 2008 1:35 PM
Posted by Erwin D’Souza, Gmail Engineer
Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I’m sure, you don’t always want other people to see. We understand how important your Gmail accounts are to you, so we’re adding a new layer of information and control. With this new feature, you can now track your recent sessions and you can also sign yourself out remotely.If you are anything like me, you probably sign in to Gmail from multiple computers. I, for example, occasionally sign into my Gmail account from a friend’s house when I need to check an important email. Usually I remember to sign out, but every once in a while I wonder if I really did. Now I no longer have to wonder.At the bottom of your inbox, you’ll see information about the time of the last activity on your account and whether it’s still open in another location:
Official Gmail Blog: Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account
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Om Malik writes …
It could be my advancing years—I seriously doubt that—but every morning I dread turning on my MacBook Pro, fearful of the data deluge it will bring and the daylong struggle to find the information I need to get things done. And I’m not the only one caught in this quicksand-like avalanche of digital data.According to market research firm comScore (SCOR), in May the total number of Internet searches conducted in the U.S. alone was about 10.7 billion—up nearly 20% from 9.1 billion searches in May 2007. Those numbers make clear that we’re all searching for more information. What they don’t make clear is that often we don’t find what we’re looking for, and so we end up trying again and again.
Can Serendipity Make You Rich?
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Mike wrote …
A little over a month ago we asked in a post: “Oil: Has the Economy Fundamentally Changed and If So What Does it Mean to Domainers?”At that time Oil was at $139 a barrel. On Friday it closed at over $145.Gold was under $900, Friday it closed at $960.The euro was $1.55 to the dollar, on Friday it closed at over $1.59.
Has the Economy Fundamentally Changed (Part 2)
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Based on advertiser feedback, and our commitment to provide useful tools and information for our advertisers, we’ve now added search volume data to the Keyword Tool. Now, when you use the Keyword Tool to search for relevant keywords to include in your keyword list, you’ll be able to see the approximate number of search queries matching your keywords that were performed on Google and the search network. These approximate numbers are intended to provide better insight into keywords’ monthly and average search volumes than previously provided by the tool.
Inside AdWords: Keyword Tool updated with search volume data
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18 August 2007
Herein, I present a glimpse into the maw of Italian bureaucracy, as seen while attempting to register a domain name, welton.it, for my own use. It’s well known that in Italy there are so many laws and regulations that many people simply ignore them, and don’t look askance at others that, say, don’t pay their taxes. One would hope that something more modern and high tech - and perhaps associated with younger generations who would like things to change - like the internet would not be so awash in procedures, but that proved to not be the case.
Confronting the bureaucratic beast - registering an Italian domain
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Suffixes (word-endings) come at the end of a word. They show whether the word is a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb. Learning these word-endings can help you recognize a noun, adjective, verb, or adverb.
English Works! Vocabulary: Suffixes
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Merriam-Webster Inc. has added more than 100 new entries to its new edition of the Collegiate Dictionary.Is it acceptable to serve edamame to a dinner guest who’s a pescatarian? Should you pour prosecco or soju for the winner of the Texas Hold ‘em game you’re planning near the infinity pool? And what’s that wing nut in the corner saying about dirty bombs and nasty Noroviruses?Before your next party, go ahead and consult the latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, which now includes edamame (immature green soybeans), pescatarian (a vegetarian who eats fish) and about 100 other newly added words that have taken root in the American lexicon.
Merriam-Webster unveils new dictionary words
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thatskinnyguy sends news of Merriam-Webster’s 2008 list of new words and, to no-one’s surprise, a good number of them come out of geek culture: words like webinar, malware, netroots, pretexting, and fanboy are now official words according to M-W. The CNet article pulls out one “new” word for special appreciation — mondegreen — and, while the article gets the origin right, it ends with a lame call for readers to send in their favorite mondegreens. (CNet does have the good grace to link the Kiss This Guy site.) SFGate columnist Jon Carroll has been collecting readers’ mondegreens since 1995 and his list is bound to be better. Quoting Carroll, in a prophetic mode: “This space has been for some years the chief publicity agent for mondegreens. The Oxford English Dictionary has not yet seen the light, but it will, it will.” Would you believe, Merriam-Webster’s?
Slashdot | “New” Words From the Geek Culture
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Getting a domain listed in Sedo’s domain auction can be a big win for domain owners, especially if their domains are generic. (See “When Should You Send a Sedo Offer to Auction?“)There are two ways to get a domain listed in Sedo’s auction. One is to submit it to an account manager or to the monthly Great Domains auction. You have to have good domains with low reserves to get accepted. Another is to receive an offer on your domain and send it to an auction with the offer as the reserve price. But waiting around for an offer is never a good sales strategy.Enter PushToAuction.com, which lets domain owners promote domains listed at Sedo that they agree to send to auction if someone makes a $60 offer on it. Users can look for domains that look reasonably priced at $60 or above and submit a bid at Sedo. The bidder makes a legitimate offer on the domain and the seller agrees to send the domain to auction after receiving the offer. This is no different than setting a $60 price expectation on Sedo, except that you get more promotion for the domain — it doesn’t get lost in the sea of 11.5 million domains at Sedo.
Domain Name Wire » News » PushToAuction.com Helps Get Domains on Sedo Auctions - The Domain Industry’s News Source
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