The top level domain name in an Internet address, such as .com, .org and .edu. See Internet domain name and extension.
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- Findname 1.0.5 (Windows)
- Find domain name. Main features include: 10 kinds of top-level domain information on high-speed bulk inquiries; letters, numbers, combinations to generate fuzzy domain; importing the list of domain names and exporting the list of unregistered or registered domain names.search results can be sorted by domain name, domain name extension, status,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-13
- Flagfox 3.3.18 (Windows)
- Flagfox is an extension that will display a country flag in the status bar and thus showing the location of the current Web site's server. Flagfox uses relatively little resources, and works by accessing an IP address database contained within the extension rather than relying on top-level-domain roots like .com...
- Software downloads 2009-11-06
- What Windows7 could mean for Linux
- Success becomes a problemIf Win7 is as trouble-free as advertised, then there will be a mass-migration to it. This will make M$ great money in the short term. But once customers are there, they are less likely to EVER upgrade again! They are "happy" with XP now - save for...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-24
- ICANN declares independence, breaks ties with U.S. government
- Let the in-fighting begin!How long before it is subverted for political/ideolical purposes like the U.N. has been subverted?(not to say the U.S. hasn't)A bit of naiveness involvedIt stands to reason that, when governments are involved, that there will be political and ideological squabbles on any decision.The EU as a "unified"...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Music execs crying about royalties again; Time for a start-over
- Once Upon a TimeWhen we had music stores and vinyl discs and LPs were premium items, stores had listening booths for people to check the recording out. Since that was a performance in commercial context, publishers and songwriters could have asked for performance rights back then. They didn't because it...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Change Is Hard: Adapting Dependency Graph Models for Unified Diagnosis in Wired/Wireless Networks
- Organizations world-wide are adopting wireless networks at an impressive rate, and a new industry has sprung up to provide tools to manage these networks. Unfortunately, these tools do not integrate cleanly with traditional wired network management tools, leading to unsolved problems and frustration among the IT staff. The paper explores...
- White papers 2009-08-21
- WinDigest Extension 1.1 (Windows)
- WinDigest Tool is a public domain free tool to compute check sum values of files by using the MD5 or SHA-1 methods. This is useful in verifying and assuring the integrity of files in different scenarios. The most common scenario is when you download an application from the Internet, the...
- Software downloads 2009-06-03
- Automatic Save Folder 0.9.2 (Windows)
- Automatic Save Folder will help you by opening the save dialog already pointing at the right folder location according to filters you set. The filters are based on file names and domain names. This extension works with automatic file downloading and left click on a link only, no right click...
- Software downloads 2009-04-16
- Exchange 2010: Tier your workforce, split your domain, save money
- Microsoft today announced the public beta of Exchange 2010. This product is a natural extension and improvement over Exchange 2007 (and anybody on Exchange 2003 should really be looking at it), but it also introduces at least one important new capability: email archiving. But I'll let my...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- IE8 focuses on usability
- Earlier today, Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 8 for public download. Many of the reviews I’ve read so far have focused on raw speed (page rendering and Javascript execution, in particular). The subject of performance isn’t nearly as cut and dried as those benchmark results would suggest,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Gore backs effort to give enviro orgs and advocates Internet domain type
- Well, maybe now Former Vice President Al Gore really CAN claim to have created some part of the Internet. In this case, a new domain designation .eco ("dot eco") that can be the calling card of environmentally conscious individuals and organizations. A company called Dot Eco LLC...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Spam and obscene profits
- Spam: Let’s Re-Define ‘Obscene Profits’ I took a great call today with Garth Bruen of Knujon (“No Junk†spelled backwards). Garth’s volunteer organization monitors spam and works with Internet registrars to throttle the miscreants who fill our in-boxes with this junk. Garth gave me a great background...
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
- EU to extend copyright to 95 years
- EU to extend copyright to 95 yearsCurious decisionI too cannot see the rationale behind this decision. One suspects Sir Cliff will have another hit soon: 'most downloaded torrent of 2009'.On another issue: be interested to hear your comments on Psystar's v Apple and the judge's reference to 'abuse of copyright...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-13
- How to make your website really, really fast
- Steve Souders knows how to make a website speed through a web browser. And he works at Google, one of the fastest websites around. Web performace is a two-pronged beast: efficiency and response time. Efficiency deals with the scalability challenges...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- DTV delayed until June
- DTV delayed until JunePresident Obama and the Congress ....... got this one wrong! The same people that aren't ready now won't be ready in June. It is their nature that until their hand is forced they will not act.Furthermore, since when is television is a right? Did...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
- Windows 7: search your university library from your desktop
- Federated Search, from a developers perspective, is like the search bar in Firefox and IE7. For the end user, and in this case, the student, it allows you to browse a search engine directly from your desktop, in Windows Search. So instead of searching "Everywhere" or "Indexed Locations", why not...
- Blog posts 2009-01-17
- Aviary launches with brand new domain, pricing model
- This is a bit old, but I haven't had time to dig in and play with the public version of Aviary until recently. After a long beta period they've officially taken the wraps off of Phoenix, their bitmap editing tool and consolidated everything under the aviary.com domain. The launch not...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Transcript: PDC08 Keynote ââ¬" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
- Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet; Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware
- Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malwareLarge networks are increasingly...being used to comprimise the Internet. These commercial networks are too large to be managed by hands-on real people and are being managed by technology. Things are only going to get worse. If these networks can't be properly managed they...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- NoScript mitigates HTTPS cookie hijacking attacks
- The invaluable NoScript for Firefox plug-in just got a tad better. According to Giorgio Maone, the developer behind the popular browser extension, a new experimental feature called "Forced Secure Cookies" has been added to NoScript v1.8.0.5 to mitigate the HTTPS cookie hijacking attack vector discussed at DEFCON...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
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