yose, you could put a link on your page somewhere to his comp. sites for those who think that its yours. Like they do for survivor.com
I took the local mayors name for a web site. She just annouced a few days ago that she is running this year. She is real pissy pretending to be ah so innocent about someone taking her name on the web. Well, suffice to say she didn’t take it for five years before that, so she just blowing hot air.
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Anyone have any new info on this topic?
I read somewhere that there’s already a sort of “underground” movement that uses the new TLDs under a protocol different from ICANN’s. Apparently, you have to change certain network settings in order to view them. Anybody know how to do it?
.xxx has not been approved for use. Only .biz and .info will be released this year, as I said in this thread:
The following news article contains links to the history of the dispute between ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and the top level country code domain registrars:
Too bad you can’t use the underscore in a domain name.
Would it be that hard to allow spaces in domain names?
Yup. The DNS software itself could handle it, but lots of other software programs that work with DNS could not. Those programs interpret a space as a delimiter, i.e. a marker that says “this is the end of the current piece of data”.
Incidentally, NORID, the folks in charge of the *.no top-level domain, have recently relaxed the rules for assigning new domains. But if you were waiting to grab por.no, you’re already too late!
NORID also controls the *.sj domain (for Svalbard and Jan Mayen, two Arctic islands under Norwegian jurisdiction). They have been contacted by a Jesuit institution interested in grabbing jesuit.sj or something similar - yours truly got to explain that one to a bunch of puzzled Norskies 