Tag: Icann

Tired of dot.com? Do you have $185,000?

You think the Internet is a jungle? You haven't seen anything yet! A while ago, we were working on standardizing Internet domain names in an attempt to classify email traffic. Example: by forcing adult content to add “SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT” in emails, the creation of .xxx domains, and many other ideas that never came to light. (Jun 23, 2011)

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WHOIS Woes

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a project where I needed to determine the creation dates of various domains. Little did I know about the complexities involved in achieving such an apparently simple task. After all, ICANN has a WHOIS Data Reminder Policy (WDRP), thus all domains must have this information readily available via a simple WHOIS query. (Oct 25, 2010)

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