Including, but not limited to, the creation of the Domain Name System on 23 June 1983. In perhaps, one of the greatest additions to IP addresses, DNS was created. Could you image typing 216.75.60.116 just to get to a website? One thing for sure is that the internet would not be what is today without DNS. No one would be fighting over three letter domains, or two letter for ... Read full entry

ICANN's recent decision to allow anyone to create whatever Top Level Domain (TLD) name they wish to, may not be quite the disaster waiting to happen that many fear, writes John Levine: Lost amid the furor about ICANN's rule change that may (or may not) lead to a flood of TLDs is the uncomfortable fact that almost without exception, the new ... Read full entry

When I first saw this story it read like fiction, or a movie synopsis, because of the way that the exact details are not being revealed yet, albeit quite understandably. The flaw exploits the internet's address mechanism, known as the Domain Name System (DNS). This maps the names we associate with websites to the true numerical addresses of their internet servers, in the same way that a mobile phone's ... Read full entry

More on the potential chaos that could, or will, ensue as a result of ICANN's change in Top Level Domain policy. What will brand owners have to do now in order to protect their brand? On one hand this means we don't have to all fight and scrape to grab any brand followed by a .com. But it also means there'll be a land rush to create and ... Read full entry

ICANN's change in policy for domain name extensions, or Top Level Domains (TLD), might be good news for domain speculators (and even ICANN itself), but for the rest of us it could usher in an era of confusion when it comes to finding some websites. If anything, this actually devalues .com domain names - many browsers currently assume ".com" for any ... Read full entry

By the time the WP timestamp serves this post, all DNS redirects should have kicked in, and required nameserver changes should have propagated "across the whole Internet", and disassociated.com.au should be back. Go there and come right back here. :) I first registered the name in 1997, hence disassociated's tag-line "dissecting the {SubSet} culture since 1997". w00t!