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 [...]
City gTLD names may not be owned by those claiming to do so
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 16 February, 2010 to the comment subset
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 [...]
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 [...]
Branding, identity, and useful generic Top Level Domains
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 12 January, 2009 to the comment subset
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
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 21 May, 2008 to the comment subset
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 [...]
The allure of the .com domain name
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 to the comment subset
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 [...]
