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Mar 20
You’ve got a great business idea, now all you need is your Web domain. But it seems like all the good domain names are now taken. Here are some tips to help you find a domain name that fits your business.
Mar 16
20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web’s standards and development. Full bio and more links
Mar 14
A quote from former Senator (R-Alaska) and convicted felon, Ted Stevens:
“The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled, and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.”
At the time, Stevens was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and was pushing a rewrite of the nation’s fundamental communications act. Would you want this man in charge of the debate on net neutrality? This is why it’s important for us geeks to pay attention to politics. Quite often our political leaders are simply not qualified to make the decisions we’ve elected them to make.
Mar 06
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization responsible for managing Internet domains, is getting ready to expand the number of top-level domains available. Environmental activist and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore hopes that one of those top-level domains (TLDs) will be created to promote environmental activism.
So two Internet entrepreneurs have formed Dot Eco LLC for the purpose of creating the .eco domain. The group announced that it has entered into an "integrated partnership" with Gore and his philanthropic organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection. "We fully support Dot Eco LLC in its efforts to secure the .eco top-level domain through the ICANN application process and look forward to working with Dot Eco LLC to promote .eco," Gore said. "This is a truly exciting opportunity for the environmental movement and for the Internet as a whole."
Dot Eco said it is interested in establishing the domain "for individuals to express their support for environmental causes, for companies to promote their environmental initiatives, and for environmental organizations to maintain their Web sites in a namespace that is more relevant to their core missions."
See more environmental news at Earth-Save.
Mar 03
Want insight into the design and development of C#? Then check out these blogs by key members of the Microsoft C# development team:
Jan 12
FKA200 has compiled a list of the most expensive domain name sales ever. Many of these sales were completed before the dot-com bust in 2001. It makes you wonder if the buyers were ever able to recoup their costs.
| # | Domain | Sale Price | Sale Date |
| 1 | Sex.com | $14 million | 2006 |
| 2 | Fund.com | $9.9 million | 2008 |
| 3 | Porn.com | $9 million | 2007 |
| 4 | Business.com | $7.5 million | 1999 |
| 5 | Diamonds.com | $7.5 million | 2006 |
| 6 | Beer.com | $7 million | 2004 |
| 7 | Casino.com | $5.5 million | 2003 |
| 8 | AsSeenOnTV.com | $5.1 million | 2000 |
| 9 | Korea.com | $5 million | 2000 |
| 10 | SEO.com | $5 million | 2007 |
See the rest of the list at FKA200
Jan 09
It appears that Dr. Dobbs Journal is dead. Beginning in January 2009, Dr. Dobb’s Journal will become “Dr. Dobbs Report — A Special Software Development Monthly Section in InformationWeek magazine.”
According to a posting on the InformationWeek website:
“Led by Dr. Dobb’s Editor-in-Chief Jon Erickson, Dr. Dobb’s Report focuses on the tools, technologies, people, products and services transforming the software development marketplace. Anchored by new in-depth Analytic Reports the Dobbs editorial team will produce in 2009, Dr. Dobb’s Report highlights the most business-critical perspective and strategies to help the readers of InformationWeek Magazine define and frame software development objectives.”
Dec 08
A social news site enables its users to submit news articles and vote on which are the best. The most popular articles percolate to the top of the list and are rewarded with a huge surge in Web traffic. A candid discussion of each article often ensues on the social news site. The most popular social news sites are Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon.
DotNetKicks (DNK) is a social news site focused on software development with Microsoft .NET. It’s one of the best sites on the Web to stay current with .NET news, information and tips. If you are a .NET developer, you should make a practice of visiting DNK every day. But this valuable site apparently has a hidden loophole that unscrupulous visitors can use to delete their competition.
Jun 16
Just a few years back, if you wanted to host a WordPress blog on your own website, you avoided GoDaddy at all costs. WordPress and other mainstream Web applications simply didn’t work on GoDaddy shared hosting without a lot of extra work. As a result, GoDaddy quickly gained a reputation as a cheap Web host that’s good only for regular HTML web sites. Over time GoDaddy support for Web applications improved, but installing WordPress still required extra work. GoDaddy also introduced automatic installers for WordPress, but the result was usually a non-standard installation and code that was a few versions too old.
Fast forward to today. With GoDaddy’s new Hosting Connection, you can install the latest version of WordPress and many other Web applications such as Joomla with just a few mouse clicks. It really couldn’t be much easier. Following are step-by-step instructions to install WordPress on GoDaddy shared hosting: