- May 6 to May 20: General Sunrise Period.
During this time, anyone with a trademark is eligible to apply for a .ME domain.
- May 20 to June 6: Quiet Period. The registry will be closed to registrars. Sunrise auctions will begin for names that received multiple applications. .ME domain names that receive only one application will be awarded.
- June 6 to June 26: Landrush. This is the first opportunity for the public at large to apply. Anyone who doesn’t have a trademark, but is interested in a specific .ME domain, can apply during this period. This is also when Sunrise challenges begin.
- June 26 to July 15: Quiet Period. During this time, the registry is closed to registrars. Names for which there was only one application during the Landrush Period are allocated. Landrush auctions will begin for names that received multiple applications.
- July 17: Open Registration. Domain names are registered on a first-come, first-served basis.
At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, The Grid is a new network, in effect a parallel internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world.
The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their “red button” day – the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates.
The grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years.
Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system meaing in theory any student or academic will be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn.
The London Times has details on The Grid
From the Aflias .info press release
Munich, Germany–From March 17 to May 25 owners of German-speaking .INFO Websites can apply for the .INFO Award that will award 18.000 Euro in prize money later this year. The Award is created by global domain name registry Afilias in media-cooperation with INTERNET WORLD Business and addresses .INFO domain owners from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Competition website http://www.info-award.info/
The London Times investigates how the internet is transforming Britain
SearchMe has a new visual search in beta. If this can deliver the right results ie if their algorithm is as good as the the big 3 engines this is really going to change the way people search.
Introduction to searchme
Demo video
Google have announced a new tool for publishers Google Ad Manager beta. Designed for ad management and serving needs of smaller publishers.
” Google Ad Manager is a free, hosted ad and inventory management tool that can help publishers sell, schedule, deliver and measure their directly-sold and network-based ad inventory.” More details at The Official Google Blog.
473,633 domain registration applications were received during the 3 week Landrush bringing the total .asia names applied for since launch to 505,838
45,696 domains received more than 1 application and will go to Auction
The most sought aftername was buy.asia (400 applicants)
1,051 domain names received more than one application during Sunrise for IP right holders. “sex.asia” received the most Sunrise applications, with 14 prior-right claims filed.
Today at Apple’s iPhone-for-Business Event Steve Jobs announced figures for the iPhones market penetration
28% of the smartphone market and incredibly represents
71% of U.S. mobile Internet usage.
Source WSJ Live Blogging at the iPhone-for-Business Event
Apple also annouced it’s iPhone SDK (Software Developers Kit) as part of the new iPhone Enterprise Beta Program.
Added:Engadget has a great slide show of the iPhone SDK Press conference.
Chart.info has some nice charts showing the relative size of differernt name spaces and a map showing worldwide distribution of .info domains together with a small directory of the best domain related sites and some interesting but older charts.
Digital Trends is reporting on a Google philanthropic project to provide phone numbers and voice mail to the homeless.
Google partnered with Project Homeless Connect to make the program happen. Although only San Francisco homeless shelters are currently able to set up accounts, Google eventually hopes to push the service nationwide.
GPM Group 