I wrote a while back about how cities and regions especially could benefit from the new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLD) names that ICANN is in the process of ushering in.
It seems though some commercial entities intent on buying a city TLD – such as .sydney for example – in the hope of then [...]

Tim Berners-Lee somewhat regrets incorporating double slashes into URLs but they seemed like a good idea at the time.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually “unnecessary”.

Search engines have somewhat mitigated the issue anyway… who types a URL in full anymore [...]

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.

A small number of corporate brand owners have expressed enthusiasm for the generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) which will be available for registration early next year, but 70% of respondents to a recent Melbourne IT survey expressed concerns as to how they will be received by their customers.
“Some of our larger corporate clients with sophisticated [...]

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 [...]

ICANN’s decision last year to allow the creation of almost any generic Top Level Domain (gTLD), or domain name suffix such as .com. or .net, stirred up more than a little controversy.
Among other things, critics felt the new system could result in a confusing combination of website addresses, while brand owners had concerns about [...]

The Web Is For Four-year-olds
I guess people who use Google to look up their own websites are too lazy to bookmark, or subscribe to, them? In the case of sites with longer URLs using Google to find them, thus saving time typing out the full address, could possibly rate as a productivity tip though?
There are [...]

Israel.com: Bidding Starts At $5.5 Million
But if you can’t afford Israel.com, current owner Moniker.com has other domain names that are slightly less expensive.
Pay.com should be of interest to someone in the financial world. Three-letter domains have been bought up for years, and an actual word possesses even more value. It’s an instant branding boost to [...]

The allure of the .com domain name
The latest internet statistics from Domain Tools reveal the unrivaled popularity of the .com domain name, with over 76 million registrations.
.net names come in a distant second with almost 11.5 million name registrations.
As of May 2008, there were 76,007,285 active and registered .com domain names. This compares to [...]

WWW or NO-WWW?
Actually I like the www prefix to web addresses, and officially disassociated’s URL is www.disassociated.com (or www.disassociated.com.au for old skoolers) but you’ll still arrive here without it.
Pronouncing or verbalising, the prefix is another matter however, and is raised in a post at the SitePoints blogs regarding the relevance, and fashionability, of [...]