We thank, Juan Enrique Sánchez, President of NameAction.com for the following explanation on the roll out of the new .MX (Mexico) country code domain.Pre-Registration Period:Only those who have registered the domain under .COM.MX, .NET.MX, .ORG.MX, .EDU.MX, or .GOB.MX before MARCH 1ST 2009.Example: If you have registered store.com.mx you will be able to register store.mx
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ICANN is on track to open up the top-level domain (TLD) system later this year to any number of ad-hoc extensions like .great or even .exe. A new report from the World Intellectual Property Organization brings to light yet again the pitfalls of ICANN’s plan, as cybersquatting complaints rose to their highest level ever in 2008—before anyone could buy google.stinks.
ICANN: cybersquatting complaints soar to highest level ever - Ars Technica
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Google is wading into behavioral ad targeting in a big way today. It will start placing cookies on consumer’s browsers to collect information about their interests whenever they visit sites that show AdSense contextual ads. Then it will show ads targeted to those interests to the same person as he or she browses the Web on other sites that also serve AdSense ads (which is a large portion of all commercial sites).
Since Google already knows what each site or page is about, it will use this information to place each user in one of 600 subcategories of interest. If you visit tech blogs often, you are probably interested in technology. If you visit Trulia, you are probably in the market for real estate. Through AdSense, Google can now target ads not only based on the context of the page you are on, but also based on the context of the pages you have visited in the past, even if you are on a site that is completely unrelated. For instance, as a completely hypothetical example, it might show you a real estate ad targeted to the towns you were searching on Trulia when you visit a gadget blog.
Google Now Lets You Target Ads At Yourself
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How much is the word “toys” worth on the Internet? Hundreds? Thousands?
Try millions of dollars.In a close bidding war, Toys ‘R’ Us last week bought the domain name Toys.com at auction for $5.1 million, placing it among the top 10 most expensive domain names on record.
And industry watchers say that it was probably a bargain.
ABC News: The Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names
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