As you know, I am a pretty big fan of the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) that are out, and even ones that have not been released to the general public yet. There are quite a few that I like, but then again there are some that I just don’t understand. So far, there has been a good response to them, and there have been some issues. For example, Twitter at first didn’t recognize the new gTLDs, but they later fixed that. What is concerning me, though, is that Gmail, so far, is NOT recognizing any of the new gTLDs that are out. Google Plus does recognize them, though. [Read more…]
Google Cookie Choices Domain Name: Response to EU Ruling About Right to Be Forgotten?
In what looks to me like a possible response to the European Union’s ruling this week about the right to be forgotten, Google has just registered the domain name CookieChoices.org. I am going out on a limb here and speculating, but Google could use this website to inform the public about how to delete cookies and their private personal information.
Here’s the domain name whois for the CookieChoices.org domain name that Google has just registered:
Prove You’re Rich with a Dot Rich Domain Name
I’ve been writing a lot about the new gTLD domain names, and many of them I really like as an alternative to the dot com domain TLD. But then there are some that I just don’t get. Let’s take, for example, the .rich gTLD. [Read more…]
AOL Security Breach: Emails Accounts Compromised
AOL is reporting a serious security breach with their email service, which I believe is a wake-up call for a lot of us. This latest email security breach involved people trying to make email appear that they’re from people you recognize: to get you to click on a link. This has happened countless times with other services, including Yahoo! email accounts. [Read more…]
How to Host Your Domain Name with Bing.com For Free
Tired of having to pay for web hosting and don’t want to park your domain name with a domain name parking company? Well, you can (temporarily) host your domain name with Bing.com for free. Yes, that’s right, all you have to do is set your domain’s name servers to Microsoft’s name servers and your domain name, when typed into a web browser, will automatically redirect to a keyword search at Bing.com. [Read more…]
Did Microsoft Just Buy Vericen.com, a Typo Domain of Verizon?
Did Microsoft just register a domain name that is a typo (a typo domain) of Verizon? I know this might be a stretch, but I am really curious about one of the domain names that was just registered, and was set up on Microsoft’s name servers:
vericen.com
Well, most likely it was NOT Microsoft that registered this domain name. Here’s why. [Read more…]