The coming weeks could see Booking.com given the go ahead by ICANN for the .HOTELS top level domain. What that means is that the online accommodation giant will effectively control how and when .HOTELS is used, a thought that is sending shivers down the spine of some in the hotel industry. The Priceline-owned brand is [...]
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Could Booking.com be a good parent to the new .hotels domain extension?
Sunday, October 7th, 2012Group asks senator to oppose Google, Amazon gTLD purchases
Saturday, October 6th, 2012A consumer group, citing concerns about the creation of a new, private Internet, has asked a senior U.S. senator to help block Google and Amazon.com from buying dozens of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The top 10 proposed new top-level domains so far Consumer Watchdog, a [...]
Microsoft Sole Vendor to Gain Hostnames in Netcraft October Web Server Survey
Saturday, October 6th, 2012Netcraft released its October 2012 web server survey on Tuesday which received responses from 620,480,777 sites Netcraft released its October 2012 web server survey on Tuesday which received responses from 620,480,777 sites, more than 350,000 sites since September’s survey. Despite the increase in responses, Netcraft says all major web server vendors – with the exception [...]
The Google Question
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012It has remained a mystery, an object of sometimes intense speculation, basically since new gTLDs first entered into conversations about digital strategy. “Talk all you want about their potential for online branding,” many digital marketers would say. “I want to know how Google is going to treat these new domains.” Some have argued that Google [...]
Demand Media’s White Paper On New gTLD’s
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012Demand Media, Inc. published a white paper (pdf) on the new gTLD’s today and I found it an interesting read. The paper is entitled: “The Opportunity for generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) Some of the highlights: “After years of planning and debate, a big change is coming to the way organizations and individuals identify themselves [...]
Protect your company’s rights in the race to register new gTLDs
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012The eagerly anticipated unveiling of the list of generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) names (the letters to the right of the dot) was revealed in June by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Historically, only 22 general use-approved TLDs, including .com, .org, and .net, just to name a few, have existed across the [...]
Google's New Page Speed Tool Speeds Up Your Website
Monday, August 6th, 2012Page Speed’s rewriter is done before the unoptimized version even starts loading images. Image: Screenshot/Webmonkey Google has added yet another trick to the company’s Page Speed web optimization service — a page rewriter that turbocharges your site by making sure that your visible, above-the-fold content loads before anything else. Google started on its web optimization [...]
How an American Can Stream the BBC’s Official Olympics Coverage and Overcome #NBCFail
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012Thorin Klosowski View Profile Email Twitter Google Plus RSS If you’re outside of the United Kingdom then getting a good live feed of the Olympics isn’t easy. NBC is streaming some video, but it’s ugly, slow, and requires a cable subscription. Worse, what they’re showing on their over-the-air broadcast is tape delayed. In short, NBC [...]
Namebench helps you find the fastest DNS
Thursday, July 26th, 2012How good is your Domain Name System provider? A newly-released utility, called Namebench, is designed to help users answer that specific question and optimize their DNS experience. Troubleshoot your DNS The DNS vulnerability: What you should know and do How to transfer your domain name between hosts More ways to protect yourself from phishing scams [...]
Google & Amazon, Two Of The Largest gTLD Applicants Team Up To Form A …
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012Google and Amazon, two of biggest applicants for new gTLD’s just teamed up to form the InternetAssociation.org a new lobbying group. According to the Washington Post other founding members include eBay and Facebook. According the Internet Association’s website: “The Internet Association is the unified voice of the Internet economy, representing the interests of America’s leading [...]
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