By Paul Miller on January 11, 2012
Image of Stephen Wolfram via Wikipedia British-born computer scientist Stephen Wolfram sees ongoing efforts to extend the Internet’s top-level domains (TLDs) beyond the familiar .com, .org, .uk etc as an opportunity to raise the profile of machine-readable data. In a blog post published yesterday, he argues that a new .data domain would increase “exposure of data on [...]
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By Dan Morrill on August 17, 2011
I buy my fair share of domain names every year some I park, some I sell, and some I wrap a web site around to see what happens with it. I usually pay between 6.95 and 9.95 depending on what extension I want for the domain name. Reports are surfacing though that the new XXX [...]
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