Domains, Internet & Gadgets
In March 1985, the first .com domain was registered, igniting the birth of the consumer Internet that, 25 years later, continues to transform communications, commerce and our society as a whole
Beginning in March 2010, VeriSign, the long-time operator of the .com domain, will lead an industry-wide initiative to recognize the innovators and leaders that have shaped the first 25 years of .com and in doing so transformed our economy and society.
Today, the fastest throughput on most of the global network is 10,000,000,000 bits (10 gigabits) per second – so sending the contents of a full DVD takes around 4 seconds.
The New Scientist is reporting Verizon has installed a 900 kilometre 100,000,000,000 bits (10 gigabits) fibre-optic link between Paris in France and Frankfurt in Germany.
YouTube are to start offering movie rentals on a trial basis.
For the initial trial Five full-length features drawn from 2010 and 2009 Sundance Film Festivals will be made available available. The rentals, which will cost $3.99 each, will be available until the end of the month and can be kept for up to 48 hours.
ZdNet has more
Afilias has just released its .info Annual Report for 2009.
With over 5 million .info domains registered .info is the 7th largest TLD in the world. Over 70% of .info domains resolve to real content and more than 1 million unique Web sites are based in the .info extension will millions more resolving to useful content.
.info domains now account for 40% of all domains registered in new TLDs. This chart from the report shows the relaltve size of new TLDs.
Our chart here compares the number of new gTLD pages indexed by Google which gives an indication of usage rather than just simple registration numbers of the first chart from the report.
VeriSign has announced that as of July 1, 2010, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $4.23 to $4.65
In a big step forward for the mobile Internet, Google Labs is offering a new way of searching. Simply take a picture of what your searching for – no need to type your search anymore.
Google Labs has examples
Egypt’s communications minister Tarek Kamel earlier today announced the introduction of the first Arabic top level domain (TLD), in a step easing Internet access to millions of Arabic speakers around the world.
From midnight (2200 GMT), registration will begin for the .misr (the romanized Arabic name for the country of Egypt), country code top-level domain (ccTLD). Tarek Kamel made the annoucement earlier at the fourth meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh Read Sea resort.
AFP Press release here
Admob.com the mobile advertising platform specialists have annouced today that they have agreeded to be acquired by Google for $750,000,000 in stock.
Press release
Google to Acquire Admob
Afilias have just announced their RFP (Request for Proposals) for the reallocation of “Old Sunrise names”
“Afilias is accepting proposals from parties that wish to register one or more of the domain names subject to the Program (“Proposals”). Proposals shall be evaluated on the manner in which the applicant proposes to enhance the .INFO brand through its use of the domain name(s).”
Proposals are sort for around 1200 names and includes names like
America.info,
Aspen.info,
London.info,
Lottery.info,
Music.info,
Scotland.info and Tech.info.
Cost $250 per application.
List of .info domain names to be made available to the program.
The judges for the 2009 .info awards competition have selected the top 10 finalists allowing you to vote for your favourite .info site
The final 10 are
Cast your vote here (closed)
Press release here
