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ICANN Takes On The Largest Expansion of gTLD Applications

Neil Lim — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:00:38 +0000

A Snapshot of The gTLD Expansion On January 12, 2012 ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned names and Numbers) started accepting applications for generic top-level domains (gTLDs) and closed its application period on May 30, 2012. Presently, there are 22 gTLDs including .com, .org, and .net. Out of the several applications, some of the biggest…

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The Long and Winding Road of Microsoft’s Decline

Steve Smith — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:14:34 +0000

There was a time when Microsoft could dominate any space they set their sights on. Time and again they would play catch up and leverage their operating system hegemony to dominate particular market segments. They did this most successfully with Microsoft Office Suite. Like most people at the time I really liked Lotus 123, WordPerfect…

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What is the Conficker Worm & What Does it Do?

Webnames.ca Staff — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:41:27 +0000

The Conficker worm, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is scheduled to activate on April 1, 2009; however the first series of infections attributed to the Conficker worm were detected back in November 2008. A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computers on…

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