Slashdot Mirror
The Worldwide Domain Battle
pledibus writes "The New York Times's Sunday magazine contains an interesting article, Get Out of My Namespace, about the spate of conflicts over website names. The author synthesizes ideas from computer technology, law, history, onomastics, cultural anthropology, and probably a few other areas, and does a pretty nice job of it."
Can't we somehow blame this on Verisign?
What we need is a set of laws that govern the internet. When someone is punished they are disallowed access to the net for a given amount of time.
*reads what i just wrote, laughes*
MABASPLOOM!
The desperation of company founders and marketing departments to find new names sometimes brings ludicrous results. To single out some of the worst, a California naming company has created the Shinola Awards; recent "winners" -- futuristic, forgettable, pseudo-Latinate, barely pronounceable -- include ACHIEVA, ALTRIA and CRUEX.
WOW, now I have something more to live for than the Darwin Awards. The name is very apt, and its about time.
to the Engineer, the glass is neither half full nor half empty. Its just two times too big.