Domains, Internet & Gadgets
Sedo announced yesterday it has been awarded the contact from Neustar, the registry operator for the .biz gTLD, to auction the enitre available catalogue of single character .biz names – a.biz … z.bz and 0.biz …9.biz.
The auction will begin at 12:00 noon (EDT) on 23rd September and close at 11:59 a.m (EDT) on 30th September, 2009.
The Sedo auction of single character names can be found at www.sedo.biz
Google has already scanned 10 million books in its bid to digitise the contents of the world’s major libraries. The 10 million titles are from libraries in America and Europe – including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford. Google’s aim being to construct a universal online archive, which will be freely searchable.
The Guardian Newspaper has an update on the project here.
The internet has changed how the world communicates. The RepRap printer designed by Adrian Bowyer of Bath University in England has the potential to change the distribution of manufacturing and the supply chain. RepRap is a 3D printer that should able to ‘print’ a copy of itself by melting plastic and building it up into solid 3D objects which solidify when they cool.
All the software for the RepRap is licensed under GNU, this means the designs for the RepRap machine are distributed free and include the designs for the printer so you can “print” a new RepRap printer for a friend for free!
RepRap from Adrian Bowyer
NeuStar has just announced subsequent to recent ICANN approval it will make single and two character .biz names availble for regisgtration.
From their press release
“In a phased rollout, NeuStar will now make these highly desirable domain names available to the global business community through a Request for Proposal (RFP) process, followed by an offering at auction of those domains not allocated to RFP respondents.
“Specifically, NeuStar will begin accepting RFP responses for the 36 one-character letters and numbers on June 1, 2009, with a response deadline of July 30, 2009.
“Once the one-character RFP round is concluded, NeuStar will proceed to an auction phase for those names and will begin accepting RFP responses for the two-character domains. Proceeds from the auction of the remaining one- and two-character domains will be used to further promote the .BIZ brand for the benefit of all .BIZ domain users.
Nextgov are reporting Senators are pressing Commerce Secretary Locke and Assistant Secretary-Designate Larry Strickling to pay close attention to the relationship between the U.S. government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The joint project agreement (JPA) which allows the US Government’s oversight of ICANN is slated to sunset on Sept. 30 amid accountability and transparency concerns.
The National Telecommunictions and Information Administration (NTIA) is currently seeking public omments regarding the future of the JPA.
Press release, Notice of Inquiry, Comments received
Nextgov news report Senators push to monitor ICANN-government relationship
The Moniker Live Auction in Silicon Valley has just sold $2,123,850* of domain names.
……..$7,000 Announced.com
……$14,000 Ycg.com
……..$6,000 BarbequeGrill.com
……..$1,000 LaptopComputers.info
……$21,000 Diets.net
……..$5,750 BusinessBankruptcy.com
……..$4,000 Junk.net
……..$2,500 ReElect.com
……..$9,000 HotProducts.com
……$10,000 KingCrab.com
……..$8,000 Accreditation.com
……..$6,500 AircraftEngines.com
……..$4,500 SystemBackups.com
……..$2,000 OfficeSupplyStores.com
…………$500 NoEvil.com
……..$6,000 MovingService.com
……..$5,000 Transferring.com
……..$2,500 DiscountAirfares.org
……$25,000 Shutter.com
……..$3,000 DesignFirm.com
……$32,500 Vixen.com
……$20,000 OnlineTelevision.com
……..$8,000 AllTerrainVehicles.com
……..$3,500 Buffoon.com
……..$3,000 DebtCollection.org
……..$1,250 15YearMortgageRates.com
……..$8,500 BoatRepairs.com
……$11,000 Filet.com
……..$9,000 Sports.info
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The Greater London Authority has approved a plan in which waste heat from the $180 million Telehouse colocation facility will be used in a district heat network for the local Docklands community.
As well as .tel domains for sale through ICANN accredited registrars the registry operator of the new .tel gTLD Telnic has announced a number of new organizations are to begin offering .tel domains for sale to their customers.
Organizations offering .tel domains for sale will include MySpace, iWelt the German directory services organization and BT (British Telecom). BT will begin offering .tel domains for sale in May, initially through its social networking site, a 300,000 strong community, for small businesses BT Tradespace.
The Telnic press release can be found here.
The UK Mail Online is reporting a revolutionary mobile phone battery that recharges in 10 seconds instead of several hours has been developed by scientists.
The new battery charges 100 times as fast as a conventional battery and could also be used in many devices such as cameras, phones, laptops and iPods within just two or three years.
And the same technology should even allow an electric car to be charged up in the same time that it takes to fill a normal car with petrol.
The US Government has digitally signed the .gov gTLD the General Services Administration has announced.
“On Feb. 28, 2009, DNSSEC became operational on .gov after the program successfully completed all required DNSSEC testing,”
“The .gov DNSSEC public key was registered [Feb. 28] with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Interim Trust Anchor Repository (iTAR) and became available for use as the published trust anchor for .gov validation,”
“The .gov Top Level Domain is now considered an active DNSSEC signed zone.”
The next step in the government wide effort to better secure its DNS is for agencies to begin deploying DNSSEC within their second-level domains, such as gsa.gov, by the end of the year.
What is DNSSEC? – http://www.dnssec.net/
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