Yet while many have heard a death knell from the Web, the advent of free papers may prove a promising source of revenue for increasingly desperate newspaper publishers.
"This is the equivalent of a death penalty for a Web site, " admits Fred Felman, a spokesperson for MarkMonitor, one of the brand management and security firms that would be accredited by the program.
Their fear is that the Web is sounding the death knell for traditional advertising channels like newspapers, television and magazines.
He costars on the hit HBO series Bored to Death and his Funny or Die web series, Between Two Ferns, has become must-see viewing for the hipster set.
Failure to implement an online post-death plan could mean things like valuable web addresses, treasured photos and even access to online bank accounts may all be lost for good, experts say.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky will enable state VROs to access to the Electronic Verification of Vital Events hub (a web based portal) to verify birth and death record information of individuals applying for a REAL ID driver's licenses and identification cards.
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Moncur says most web-literate people are still some way from death's door, statistically speaking, so are not thinking about their online legacy.
On Wednesday evening, the world took to the Web to express their condolences about the news of his death.
"At this stage the cause of this tragic death is unknown, " the company said in a statement posted on their Web site.
"Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy, " they wrote in a statement published on the Web.
Schmidt says we are seeing the death of IT as we know it, and that next generations of companies will be built by Web-based, cloud-based applications.
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