Will the growing desire for separate sovereign states, as witnessed, for example, by the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, eventually lead to the World Wide Web becoming a series of localised intranets, accessible only to those within the confines of certain geographic territories? So what if you put all the three trends together: rise of nationalism (both geographic and linguistic) and technical advances, you ... 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