If you are involved in an open source project and still haven't decided on a name for your software then maybe you should take a couple of minutes to think carefully. You may end up infringing someone else's trademark or intellectual property if you are not careful! An example of this was one of the more recent WIPO decisions regarding the domain cpanelapache.com. If you visit … [Read more...] about Choose Your Project Name Carefully
Domains & DNS
TLD Maps … Every home should have one!
I don't know how I came across this site, though I think it may have been a google ad. They offer a really cool tld map of the world: tld map … [Read more...] about TLD Maps … Every home should have one!
ICANN Approves .tel
ICANN has approved a new TLD - .tel I'm really not sure about this one. Is it of any practical use? Will it cause confusion with .mobi? While I can see that they are aimed at different markets launching both TLDs within a relatively short period of time (in ICANN terms) may lead to confusion. Frank Michlick is as undecided as I am: Interesting, so this sTLD will need a special … [Read more...] about ICANN Approves .tel
IEDR Releases Financials and makes interesting promises
The Irish domain registry (IEDR) has released details of its finances The press release and report contains some amusing very amusing comments from the IEDR management, but this one really takes the biscuit: Its offering of a “managed” domain, where, unlike other domain names, entitlement to the .ie name is established and cybersquatting is eliminated, is unique in the current … [Read more...] about IEDR Releases Financials and makes interesting promises
EU Fun and Games
I setup another blog to discuss the entire EU debacle. At the moment I am trying to transfer a domain between registrars and it isn't going too well :( … [Read more...] about EU Fun and Games