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Internet org paves way for hundreds of new domains
AP - Thu Jun 26, 7:01 PM ETNEW YORK - The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system.
Off the Wires
- Internet flaw could let hackers take over the Web AFP - Wed Jul 9, 3:01 AM ET
- WITNESS: Virtual friends in a cancer world Reuters - Sun Jul 6, 12:10 AM ET
- Terra gets Olympic Internet rights AP - Sat Jul 5, 11:22 PM ET
- Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs AP - Fri Jul 4, 7:52 AM ET
- Google ordered to give YouTube user data to Viacom AFP - Fri Jul 4, 4:26 AM ET
News Stories
- Privacy advocates praise Google's new link CNET via Yahoo! News - Sat, Jul 05, 2008
- Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal CNET via Yahoo! News - Fri, Jul 04, 2008
- Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records at The New York Times - Thu, Jul 03, 2008
- Google Keeps Code but Viacom Gets YouTube User Data PC World via Yahoo! News - Thu, Jul 03, 2008
- Facebook seeks trusted relationships on the 'Net InfoWorld via Yahoo! News - Thu, Jul 03, 2008
Feature Articles
- The end of e-mail? at Sacramento Bee - Mon, Jul 07, 2008
- `Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights AP via Yahoo! News - Mon, Jul 07, 2008
- New internet domains: what do they mean for me? at The London Times - Thu, Jun 26, 2008
- A Web Dozen, for your viewing leisure USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News - Thu, Jun 26, 2008
- One Man, One Long List, No More Web Ads at The Washington Post - Wed, Jun 25, 2008
- Google's Cutts: Good directions drive traffic to your website USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News - Mon, Jun 23, 2008
Opinion & Editorials
- Real change happens off-line The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News - Mon, Jun 30, 2008
- Fighting Al Qaeda With YouTube at The New York Times - Thu, Jun 26, 2008
- Firefox 3 browser is nifty and packed with handy features USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News - Fri, Jun 20, 2008
- Buying Friends and Influencing People? at AllThingsD - Tue, Jun 03, 2008
- YouTube, take down terrorism recruiting videos - now at NY Daily News - Wed, May 28, 2008
- From literacy to digiracy at The Economist - Fri, May 16, 2008
Related Web Sites
- Internet Traffic Report
- Measures the performance of major Internet routers around the world once every hour.
- Pew Internet & American Life Project
- Researches the impact of the Internet on American society. Offers a collection of tools and resources for the study of aspects of 'networked life'.
- Internet Society
- International organization for global cooperation and coordination for the Internet and its internetworking technologies and applications.
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- The protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet.
- W3C: The World Wide Web Consortium
- Visit the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), dedicated to developing interoperable technologies to lead the Web to its full potential. Includes latest news, specifications, guidelines, software, and tools.
- Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society
- read the April 2000 study, Internet and Society, conducted by this research institute devoted to the quantitative examination of social change.