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Harvard.xxx and the Race to Claim Potentially Damning Web Addresses
As new web addresses become available, stakes are heightening for companies and other brands that have something to lose.
To Visit the Internet You Must Leave the Internet: An Interview with "Tubes" Author Andrew Blum
It’s nice to think that Andrew Blum chose "_Tubes_":http://www.amazon.com/Tubes-A-Journey-Center-Internet/dp/0061994936 as the title for his book for pure fun, because, really, how absurd was it that Senator Ted Stevens once used this word to explain...
What the Biggest Internet Land Grab Ever .Means
h5. ^"Unleashing the global human imagination": Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of ICANN^. Today, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization in charge of maintaining the Internet's address system, "opened the...
Is the URL As Dead As the Phone Number and Address?
It was only a matter of time. The recent announcement by ICANN that they would add an indefinite number of vanity suffixes to the top level domains of the DNS system (making it so that, for instance, you can _finally_ register www.fuckyeah.xfiles for...