A milestone has just been reached: the domain name has hit 25 years old.
On the 15th March 1985, the very first domain name was registered. It was for a computer maker called Symbolics, and who would have realised the revolution it would signal.
Back in 1985 there were just 6 .com domain names registered. Now there [...]
Category Archives: Internet News
2010
Apr
28
.COM domain name turns 25 years old!
2010
Apr
14
Are you keeping an eye on #GE2010?
It’s no particular secret that those of us in the UK are in the middle of a run-up to a General Election, and this year it looks like the internet – and particularly social media – is set to play a vital role, which is great news for the tech savvy among us.
We’re all used [...]
2009
Mar
10
Are you paying for premium support?
It’s surprising just how many high profile companies still expect their customers to pay a fortune for technical support. As the BBC reports, 32 out of 45 big name internet companies make their customers pay dearly for support – and that’s just the ISPs.
Well, frankly, we can’t be doing with that! I think I can [...]
The latest proof of just how important the right domain name is for businesses has been delivered by Toys R Us, whose deep pockets are now an impressive $5.1million lighter after purchasing the domain toys.com at auction.
It’s an extraordinary amount of money, and it’s not as if Toys R Us doesn’t have its company name [...]
2008
Jul
25
iPhone email, the Daily.co.uk way
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past few weeks you can’t fail to have noticed that the 3G version of the iPhone has been released.
Here at Daily we have several iPhone addicts and the one thing about the phone they all enthuse about is email.
Lori, who has loads of different email accounts, [...]
Today, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – the governing body that co-ordinates the system of top level domains, such as .com and .org) announced plans to open up the global top level domain (gTLD) system so that theoretically anything could be available as an alternative to .com. The expansion also means [...]
