ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has announced that they will start approving TLDs (Top Level Domains) using non-latin characters. This means that government can apply for country codes using characters like ÅÄÖ.
This is not something new, we've seen it before in Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) for .com, .net and several country code [...] Continue Reading
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Snapnames recently discovered that an employee had setup an account for himself under false name to bid in auctions at Snapnames (something which is not allowed by Snapnames). This behavior is not allowed by Snapnames and luckily it only affected a small part of their auctions (approximately five percent of total SnapNames auctions since 2005 [...] Continue Reading
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I just tried Microsoft Security Essentials for my Windows computers and I have to say that it's a fantastic antivirus software. McAfee and Symantec really need to watch out since this is going to make them lose customers.
We all know that the antivirus softwares from the big companies like McAfee and Symantec requires a lot [...] Continue Reading
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