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Jun
28
ICANN adopts new Web site naming rules
Posted (Allan) in Technology on June-28-2008

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers voted Thursday to relax rules for naming Web sites.

At its meeting in Paris, ICANN, a not-for-profit organization that oversees the naming scheme for Web sites, voted to accept a proposal that will allow companies to purchase new top-level domain names ending in whatever they like.

So, for example, instead of being restricted to sites ending in .com or .org., eBay could have a site that ends in .ebay, or New York City could end its Web site with .nyc.

The new naming process will begin in 2009. The first suffixes will likely be given to businesses and other major organizations. Countries are expected to keep their specific suffixes, but as in the example above cities could also get individualized URLs, such as .london or .chicago.
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Mar
29
New tool from Google alarms sites
Posted (Allan) in Technology on March-29-2008
Retailers and publishers have fought hard to work their way up in the ranking of Google’s search results and refine the search features of their own websites to help users once they arrive. Now, Google is taking a greater role in helping users search within particular sites. And some of the same retailers and publishers are not happy about it.

In March, the company introduced a search-within-search feature that lets users stay on Google to find pages on popular sites like those of TheWashington Post, Wikipedia, The New York Times, Wal-Mart and others. The search box appears when someone enters the name of certain web addresses or company names — say, “Best Buy” — rather than entering a request like “cell phones”.
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