If the new domain is real, it must have been around for several billion years, and must thus have something going for it.
The real hope for significant change in this domain arrives not from hardware or regulations, but from software--Silicon Valley information-technology tamed, civilized and optimized for the building market.
His reasoning is simple: the cyber domain is just like the real world, and in the real world we have treaties and oversight agencies to monitor adherence to them.
For now, the weakened real-estate market has put the brakes on eminent-domain takings by developers.
Firms such as Internet Real Estate and IREIT buy up thousands of Web sites with commonplace domain names such as africanamericans.com and mutualfunds.com, then load them with Google ads.
Joe Alagna, a spokesman for CentralNic, said there was a real possibility that lots of people would think they owned a particular domain when in fact they did not.
Unfortunately, snagging one is harder these days because large companies and domain "squatters" like Fisher gobbled up a lot of the catchy real estate years ago.
In an area previously the exclusive domain of only the biggest brands with the biggest budgets, this is a real leveling of the advertising playing field.
The real point of the pre-Budget report is to put new policy and tax ideas into the public domain before legislating.
It's not a stretch to guess that with Thor, Digital Domain will show us a realistic-looking digital superhero who can act just as well as the real actor he is based on.
Penguin Books was denied its request for the transfer of penguin.org from a man with the nickname Penguin, and pop star Sting will have to find a different domain after his demand for sting.com was rejected on the grounds that sting was not his real name and was a common word.
CNN: Technology - 'Cybersquatters:' Invading big names' domains
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