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The Worldwide Domain Battle

Posted by timothy on from the translation-engines-reloaded dept.

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."

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  1. http://first.post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how about .post ?

  2. Another NYT astroturf. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Geez, if the NYT submits so many article summaries, you'd think they'd at least start using a real name and email address, not some fake random joe sounding name.

  3. My Chinese girlfriend's purple labia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YHBT

  4. http://YOU-FAIL.IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about that, you stupid twat?