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RealNames Closing Shop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the huge-surprise dept.

The_THOMAS writes: "The company RealNames, which tried to make a buck off of the domain name gold rush by adding their own layer on top of the ICANN system, is going out of business (Full story here). To review, the RealNames system is a browser plugin which redirects a user who types 'cookies' in the IE address bar to Nabisco.com. The reason for the closure appears to be the decision by M$ to NOT renew their agreement with RealNames which expires in June."

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  1. In other news.... by PepsiProgrammer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    RealNames changes name to FakeNames and releases new adware software to screw with DNS entries

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  2. Too bad... by csguy314 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    it might have been nice to get to slashdot by just typing in "/."
    and to get the microsoft site by typing in "you bastards"

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  3. Open Source by Grip3n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lets make this open source

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