Domains, Internet & Gadgets
The New York Times will stop charging for access to the subscription parts of its Web site, [midnight Tuesday], recognising that subscription fees cannot outweigh the potential ad revenue from increased traffic on a free site.
“In addition to opening the entire site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain.
More details in this article on the Times website
Patrik Faltstrom has created a Google map of root servers. Patrik has more info here
The Google Public Policy Blog has an interesting post on the economic value of “fair use” summarizing a study (.pdf) by the Computer and Communications Industry Association.
Google is offering a cash prize of $20,000,000 for the first private company to land a robot on the moon. The prize fund totals $30,000,000 with the runner up getting $5,000,000…. Wired has more
One small catch you need to get your robot there before 2012 to win the $20,000,000.
“Ivan Bowman spends his days as a programmer at iAnywhere Solutions in Waterloo, Ontario, in much the same way his colleagues do. He writes code, exchanges notes in other developers’ offices, attends meetings and hangs out in the kitchen over coffee. About the only thing he can’t do is drink the coffee – or touch anything….
The UK Guardian has more ….
Shoemoney.com has a very interesting post on using a brand to migrate users to a new domain. The post shows how successful Bodog have been moving from bodog.com to newbodog.com after the unexpected and unforseen loss of their name for legal reasons.
Verisgn has just released it’s latest (Q2/07) Domain Name Industry Brief
Whilst it provides a good overview it is interesting to do a little math.
From the Verisign report Total Domains = 138 million, Total ccTLDs = 51.5 million which gives 86.5 million gTLD domains.
All well and good but where are those 86.5 million gTLD domains registered?
56.5m United States
4.8m Germany
3.2m United Kingdom
3.0m Bahrain
2.8m Canada
2.6m China
1.9m France
1.7m Hongkong
1.6m Australia
1.1m Japan
1.0m Spain
0.9m Korea
0.8m Italy
0.7m The Netherlands
0.6m Turkey
0.5m New Zealand
0.4m India
0.4m Cayman Islands
0.4m Russia
0.3m Denmark
“Talking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Vint Cerf – one of the handful of researchers who helped build the internet in the 1970s – said that the television industry would change rapidly as it approached its “iPod moment”.
The British Guardian newspaper has more details
NeuStar, Inc. has announced it has deployed internationalized domain names (IDNs) for the Korean language in the .BIZ top-level Internet domain as of August 19, 2007.
.BIZ IDNs in are now available in Korean, Chinese, Danish, German, Icelandic, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.
From the London Times
“YouTube will introduce advertising into video clips today for the first time as the world’s most popular video- sharing website tries to justify its $1.65 billion (£832 million) purchase price.
“Twenty seconds after a clip begins, a transparent advert appears in the bottom fifth of the video for a further 15 seconds. Clicking on the image overlay plays the advert, but if ignored it simply disappears.
GPM Group 
