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Home 28 Jun 2008 ICANN to add new top level domains, World to come to an end ICANN The biggest buzz from the Paris ICANN meeting was that the board accepted last fall's proposal for a streamlined process to add new TLDs. A variety of articles in the mainstream press, many featuring inflammatory but poorly informed quotes (from people who probably got a phone call saying "We go to press in five minutes, what do you think about ICANN's plan to add a million new domains?") didn't help. When can we expect the flood of TLDs? Don't hold your breath. See more ... posted at: 19:23 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/newtlds.trackback 12 Jun 2008 Domain Registration, a Simple Introduction ICANN I recently gave a talk about the way that domain registrations work. To illustrate it I made a slide that illustrates the process. Any questions? posted at: 05:12 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/simple.trackback 02 Jun 2008 Fourteen thousand messages Email A guy I know went away on a trip for a month and a half. When he got back, his inbox had 14,000 messages waiting for him, real ones, since his mail system has pretty good spam filtering. How can anyone deal with that much mail? More importantly, if there are tools to sort, filter, combine, and so forth to get the mail under control, how can people who aren't technoweenies like me manage the tools? See more ... posted at: 00:13 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/fourteenk.trackback

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