The amount of bullshit reportage being published over this massive change to the internet’s domain name system is breathtaking.
Domain names
Australian domain names: two million and counting
The number of .com.au domain names registered in Australia has now exceeded two million. The industry is currently going gangbusters, with nearly a quarter having been sold in the last 12 months, writes Patrick Staffords.
The oldest .com domain names
An interesting list of the 100 oldest registered domain names, starting way back in March 1987. See which companies were first to jump on board the world wide web.
The swift takedown of stephenconroy.com.au
Just hours after a bit of media publicity, an anti-Stephen Conroy website was pulled down by authorities. Was this a routine domain deregistration or something more sinister?
Meet the man who beat Glenn Beck
Fox News commentator Glenn Beck recently tried to sue Isaac Eiland-Hall, a 34-year-old IT student and the owner of a website called GlennBeckRapedAndMurdered AYoungGirlIn1990.com. He lost.
Internet: 1, Glenn Beck: 0
Controversial Fox News anchor Glenn Beck has lost his battle to rid the internet of the site glennbeckrapedandmurdered ayounggirlin1990.com. Following his victory, the owner of the domain has penned an open letter [pdf] to Beck slamming him, but volunteering to relinquish the site.
The internet is totally .GAY
With a whole bunch of new top-level domain names on the way (i.e. other than just .com .org and .net) a host of high-profile folk are getting behind a push to approve .gay, which will then be monetised to fund gay rights campaigns.
Can a URL be defamation?
Embattled Fox News host Glenn Beck has set his lawyers upon the creators of glennbeckrapedand murderedayounggirlin1990.com. It’s certainly a meme too far, but does he have a case for defamation?
Wolfgang Puck’s .food fight
Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is being sued over a bungled plan to obtain “.food” as an internet domain and launch a business venture around it. Everything started out sweet for the partnership, but it soon turned pear shaped…
What’s.next? The net gets a new look
The intertubes are set for a radical shake-up, with the net’s regulator, Icann, deciding to relax the rules on “top-level” domain names like as .com or .org, potentially allowing urls made from non-Roman scripts, business or individuals’ names.
Green groups see red in battle over .eco domain
Two environmental groups — one from the US backed by Al Gore, and another from Canada backed by the WWF — have locked horns over the rights to the internet domain ‘.eco’. At stake are two very noble, but very different, business plans for the address.
Cashing in on typos with .cm
An enterprising website domain vendor is marketing .cm URLs to people looking to cash in on every mistyped .com address.
100 oldest domain names
What was the first .com? Find out who was truly prescient with this handy table.
