Obvious Web domain variations like carmageddon.net and carmageddon.org already have been spoken for.
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The BCM7445 also features web domain security, an industry leading hardware security oversight to separate Internet services from premium broadcast content.
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Those expenses are largely covered by a smattering of ads from movie studios, gaming companies, Web domain registrars and the occasional big brand such as Autodesk.
In July, security researcher Dan Kaminsky revealed a flaw in the Web's domain name system, or DNS, the protocol that connects a Web site's name with its physical location on the Internet.
It also expanded its footprint in China by acquiring a controlling interest in HiChina Web Solutions, a provider of Internet services such as domain registration and Web hosting.
If you want e-mail but don't care much about a Web presence, some domain registrars can take care of your needs cheaply or for free.
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.
While the announcement sounds the start of competition in this market, it raises a serious question for users: If ISPs offer domain name registration as an add-on to Web services, then who owns the domain?
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If you want to do business on the Web, having a memorable domain name clearly helps.
These are mostly e-commerce businesses, selling things like domain names and web hosting.
The original Web started as many different domain names that you had to type in manually, or use AOL keywords to find.
Paul, Minnesota, man has three online banking accounts, a PayPal account, domain names, Web-hosting accounts, multiple e-mail addresses and many social-networking accounts.
The web is a deeply personal domain.
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Morton said federal officials have already seized domain names of 313 web sites, almost all of which originated overseas.
You can initially advertise the availability of IPv6 at a special test domain name for your Web server, say www.v6.company.example.
From a technical standpoint, CloudFlare offers authoritative DNS, a function of the domain name system that Web sites use to identify themselves on the Internet, with a twist.
ICANN's approval of the seven new domain names could affect the Web security firm VeriSign (VRSN: Research, Estimates).
Federal prosecutors in Baltimore have seized the Internet domain names of 10 gaming web sites, including the online home of DoylesRoom, the poker web site that for years was promoted by Doyle Brunson, known as the Godfather of Poker and the most legendary professional poker player of his generation.
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Under current rules, anyone can register a .com domain name and set up a Web site of any kind.
Your domain can't have a Web or e-mail presence unless it's hosted--though your registrar may provide some hosting services for a Web presence and e-mail account at a reasonable cost (or gratis).
The site, which allows users to subscribe to topics and see publicly-asked questions and answers tagged with related subjects, has wooed a surprisingly high-quality collection of domain experts particularly around Web startups.
The FBI said it seized the web server for UGNazi.com as well as the domain name of Carders.org.
Core to that tale of two hackers is a layer of the Web that acts as a digital directory assistance, the Domain Name System.
Web firms joining the initiative include search giant Google, domain registration firm Network Solutions, hosting companies as well as payment processors Paypal, Visa and Mastercard.
The case puts the world of web addresses under the spotlight at a time when several new domain names are coming online.
SnapNames is offering domain name monitoring services targeted toward large corporations, Web site design shops and law firms specializing in intellectual property practices.
Brand management firms, like Mark Monitor and Internet Identity, already send rogue site addresses to registries and registrars, the middlemen who sell domain names, to have them pulled off the Web.
He said the server domain is called Houston and that all of Microsoft's Web servers are set up the same way with the same disk image.
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