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Animal rights activists People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals might have gone a bit crazy. The group has announced plans to launch a porn site that hopes to raise awareness of veganism.
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The internet is to get a little bit dirtier, or cleaner, depending on where you stand. ICAAN, the body who regulates the domain names (such as our name, techgeek.com.au), has approved the creation of a new top-level domain name .xxx.
Porn, get ready for your own industry-specific top-level domain (TLD) name.
ICANN has today announced that it has approved the controversial .xxx domain, which will be specifically used to host sites that are within the porn industry; just like .aero is for the air-travel business and .org is for organisations.
ICANN, the organisation that oversees all domain names and registrations – including the familiar dot-com – is expected to give the go ahead for the controversial .xxx top-level domain (TLD) for websites containing pornography.
A federal judge in the Northern District of California has awarded a US$33.15 million settlement to Verizon after it sued a domain registrar for cybersquatting on domains that tried to take advantage of domains that are easily misspelled or confusing variants of Verizon and its trademarks, Verizon announced on Wednesday.
A pastor in central Queensland has bought two internet domain names which bear the name of Queensland’s Premier Anna Bligh.
Pastor David Ally, from the Mountain of the Lord Christian Church in Mount Morgan, bought the domain names of annabligh.org and annabligh.net in September of 2007, when Bligh took over the role from Peter Beattie. This now allows him to create websites and email addresses using the domain name.
The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, who regulates all domain names like .net and .com, is expected to vote on the new names after it opened its annual general meeting on Monday in Paris.
The .au country domain has now reached 1 million, after 5 years of strong growth; according to AusRegistry. It says that the domain has grown 25% each year for the past 5 years; saying this can be attributed to the reduced domain pricing, regulated environment and technical stability.
.asia will be opening registrations to governments wanting geographical names (like china.asia, japan.asia, vietnam.asia) and people who have trademarks before March 31, 2004 and are in use. Other such trademarks and companies have to wait until November 13.
According to Australian IT; the ‘.eu’ domain, which the European Union created, has topped 2.5 million domains after launching. Many companies are switching to the new .eu domain, including Sony.
As well, according to the source, it is the 7th most popular suffix and 3rd for Europe. It was only beaten by Germany’s ‘.de’ and Britain’s ‘.uk’. Most of the ‘.eu’ registrations came from Germany, then followed by The Netherlands and Britain.
The proposal for the .xxx domain, which would have put all pornographic and sexual content together in one domain, has been rejected; acording to Australian IT.
ICANN said that it will not resolve the ‘vulnerable members of the community’. The bill, proposed by US Senator Mark Pryor and Max Baucus, would allow any sexually charged content will be banned to use .com, .net, .org, etc.