Dot What? Hundreds Of New Top-Level Domain Name Applications Revealed

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 Dot What? Hundreds Of New Top-Level Domain Name Applications Revealed Almost 2,000 requests to register new, top-level domain names have been unveiled. The new domains will take the place of the current website endings like .com and .info. Organisations had to pay £118,000 to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) to apply for the domains. The applied-for names include business addresses (.apple, .windows, .google and .amazon), while some were from the racier end of the Internet, including .porn, .adult and .sex. Check out the list at the Huffington Post. Samsung Planning To Launch A Facebook Rival... Called 'Samsung Facebook'? 'King Of The Geeks' On Vision, Work And The Difficult Future Of Computing Internet Rallies To Bring Peace To Civilisation II 'Nightmare World' Watch The Big Winner At The Internet's Oscars Extremely Large (And Incredibly Cool) Telescope Given Green Light BLOG POSTS Alice E. Vincent: Grey Matter: I'm Donating My Brain to Science Talking about donating one's brain to science doesn't always crop up at dinner parties. But the fact is, along with the heirlooms worth more in sentiment than cash, the ill-fitting coats and outdated catchphrases, I want to leave behind something else. Namely, the fleshy organ inside my head. Chris Hirst: Anti-Social Media For anybody over the age of about 25, the enthusiasm with which society as a whole - and particularly those under that age - have for sharing their every single thought, movement, photo, likes, hates, fears and dreams with anybody who cares to listen (and increasingly those who don't) is a rather unfathomable mystery. Bansi Kara: Techno-Literacy: Lifting Limits in Education Deciding to block out the existence of mobile phones is like censoring all conversations about sex - the more we avoid something, the more appealing it becomes. We create the taboo and expect children to not be curious. It's a fairly Victorian concept. European Parliament Web Team: Pulling the Plug on Online Threats Protection of young people online is very much needed as 12% of 9 to 12-year-olds say they have been upset, mainly by bullying (40%) and by sexual content and approaches (25%). Young people spend on average 88 minutes a day online. John Carr: Filtering Public WiFi is Catching On Some time ago 02 announced free public WiFi system for central London. It is being rolled out in time for the Olympics.

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