I’m not sure how feasible the proposal actually is, but imagine having a phone number that was like a URL or website address, one number you could retain permanently and (possibly) use regardless of where you lived.
Cell phones can already input web-style addresses and a firmware upgrade would allow for a new system of [...]
What’s your dot phone dot number?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 8 September, 2009 to the technology subset
The most expensive domain name ever is money related
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 4 September, 2009 to the web subset
As its sale price can actually be substantiated – funds.com – which sold for US$9.99 million the last time it was traded, rates as the most expensive domain name on the web.
And in case you’re wondering porn.com is the second most expensive domain, last selling for US$9.5 million.
No horsing around here, “dot horse” gTLD is a going concern
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 11 August, 2009 to the web subset
The Dot Horse Project aims to bring about the creation of a dot-horse generic top level domain. Hmm, racing.horse anyone?
The .horse namespace will provide a safe, reliable internet community for all things equine – where anyone involved with the sport, business, or enjoyment of horses can communicate and share trusted news, information, and ideas. We [...]
By my calculations there are 838 Top Level Domains
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 3 March, 2009 to the comment subset
How many Top Level Domain names are there? I guess it’s something most of us have stopped to think about at one time or another, except apparently for visitors to ICANNs offices:
Hands down, the most common question I get at an ICANN meeting is “Where are the restrooms?” A close second is “How many top-level [...]
Why have a URL that’s longer than the alphabet… in 1994?
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 2 March, 2009 to the comment subset
Curious, captain. In 1994 you could virtually choose any domain name you wanted, so why would anyone go for one that was 30 characters long and looked more like a complex password than a URL?
Back in 1994 when I first started working on the Web site that would become Tahoe.com, we had a Web address [...]
dot com branding and generic Top Level Domains
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 26 January, 2009 to the comment subset
Is the practice of brands incorporating URLs in their logo pointless? A tweet by Sean Smith aka @nakedbearmedia on the subject caught my eye last week:
Likewise, I don’t think brands should use “.com” as part of their logo. It’s not 1999 where you need to tell people you are an online biz.
It makes sense. After [...]
A short history of the first registered dot-com name
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 26 December, 2008 to the comment subset
It will come as no surprise, I’m sure, to learn that the first dot-com domain name, being symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.
Let me set the scene for you: The year was 1985. MS-DOS 3.0 was the PC operating system of choice, most commonly run on the top-selling Tandy 1000 personal computer. A newly [...]
Twitter usernames: the next gold rush?
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 1 October, 2008 to the comment subset
A John Johnston tweet the other day, asking about the trading of Twitter usernames, has me wondering, are we soon to see ridiculous sums of money change hands for such names, as we do domain names?
Anyone know of any Twitter usernames being traded lately? If so do you know for how much?
The World Wide Identity dot crisis
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 1 July, 2008 to the comment subset
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. [...]
What’s in a Top Level Domain name?
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 27 June, 2008 to the comment subset
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 [...]
