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Tag Archives: domain name
Auctions + Markets for Domains, Domain Names + TLDs
Several years ago, one of my friends (who is not a „domainer“ per se) made a very insightful remark… – a remark that I have carried around with me ever since and also pondered over all this time (and indeed, … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged auction, auction price, data, domain, domain name, domain names, domains, generic, generic domain, generic domains, market, market price, metric, metrics, premium, premium price, price, price discrimination, pricing, proprietary, proprietary domain, proprietary domains, proprietor, reliability, reliable, tld, tlds, valid
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The Domain Name is the Medium
If you are “old school“, you might type in thenewyorktimes.com to visit “The New York Times”. It wouldn’t matter much, because that domain name also belongs to the company that publishes “The New York Times” — and so does newyorktimes.com, … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged app. apps, brand, brand name, brand names, brands, domain name, domain names, language, Marshall McLuhan, media, medium, natural language, rational media, retard media, smartphone, smartphones, trademark, trademarks
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Fuzzy Language and Fuzzy Vocabulary
Since I wrote about words vs. names a couple weeks ago (see “Names vs. Words: Strings for Identity vs. Strings for Information“), I have had an uneasy feeling that something is not well… and I think maybe I have figured … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged domain, domain name, domains, fuzzy, fuzzy logic, language, name, names, string, strings, vocabulary, Wisdom of the Language, word, words
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Names vs. Words: Strings for Identity vs. Strings for Information
There is a long-standing tradition of distinguishing names from words — although it is not formally codified (even language itself is not “set in stone”, but rather is undergoing constant evolution — much like a living being), it can be … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged communities, community, describe, description, descriptive, domain, domain name, domain names, domains, evolution, evolve, information retrieval, language, name, names, natural, nature, search, specification, specifications, specify, technology, Wisdom of the Language, word, words
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To Read or to Be Read
When I was a kid, I used to go to the library a lot… and read books. Before reading them, I would need to find them. For those of you unfamiliar with this process: This was the prototype for most … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Tagged author, authors, book, books, catalog, cataloging, catalogs, domain, domain name, domain names, domains, illiteracy, illiterate, index, indexing, information, information retrieval, language, literacy, literate, literature, publisher, publishers, publishing, read, reading, retard media, search, share, sharing, write, writing, written
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Wisdom of the Language — Nooblogs Essay
Today I wrote another “Wisdom of the Language” essay. If you are not familiar with the Wisdom of the Language, then don’t fret: This essay will hopefully summarize all of the salient points and also bring you up to speed … Continue reading → Continue reading
How to Tell Whether a TLD is a Generic TLD or a Proprietary TLD
Simply enter the name of TLD into the browser bar and then add .NAME In the .NAME registry, the TLD name for generic domain names are reserved words and cannot be register — so if you get no response, then … Continue reading →
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Tagged domain, domain name, domain names, domains, generic, name, names, proprietary, tld, tlds, top level domain, top level domains
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ICANN’s Plan to Privatize the English Language: Dot Gay
A friend of mine, Ray King, is one of the applicants for .Gay — and he just wrote: The current issue is whether a small group of the Internet elite understand the problems with delegating a single company as the … Continue reading →
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Tagged authoritarian, authority, corporate, corporation, corporations, dictate, dictator, DNS, domain, domain name, domain name system, domain names, domains, English, gay, governence, ICANN, language, monopoly, monopoly power, natural language, tld, top level domain, top level domains
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I book, I care, I think, I can
In the past several days, I have been confronted with a quirky issue. Let me explain the background with a hypothetical example, because I don’t want to name any specific details of the actual case. Last year, ICANN (the Internet … Continue reading →
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Tagged domain name, domain names, governance, government, ICANN, Internet, law, legal, online, regulation, regulations, regulatory, system, systems, tld, tlds, top level domain, top level domains, web
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Why domain names are more reliable than site descriptions, page titles and/or about pages
I’ve been spending the past couple days catching up on some of the backlog that built up in my RSS reader since Christmas… — actually I simply declared bankruptcy on some feeds that had accumulated hundreds if not thousands of … Continue reading →
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Tagged ad, ads, advertisement, advertisements, advertising, domain name, domain names, register, registration, registry, retard media, Wisdom of the Language
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