ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, voted in a pretty big change to domain names at its special session held in Singapore today. They have voted to allow registries to buy and control the top-level domains, or TLDs. Typical TLDs include .com, .net, or .org but after the vote, individuals will be able to apply to run a wide variety of what they want. … [Read more...]
GoDaddy Main Website Offline For About 4 Hours, Now Back Up
GoDaddy.com suffered a few hours of downtime this evening but appears to have just come back up. Acknowledged by the @GoDaddy Twitter account, the main www.GoDaddy.com page first redirected to a standard Microsoft IIS error page and then later redirected to an error 503 page. Neither of these were comforting sites for customers of "the web's largest hosting and domain provider" … [Read more...]
Illinois Amtrak In The Very Early Stages of Investigating WiFi For Its Trains
An article in the local newspaper yesterday detailed the initial steps being taken to offer WiFi on Amtrak trains in Illinois. Overseen by the Illinois Department of Transportation, a blueprint for the project is expected in the coming weeks along with cost estimates. "Once we get the data from each of the potential vendors, we'll determine what's feasible and what an … [Read more...]
World IPv6 Day Starts… Now!
For the next 24 hours, it is World IPv6 Day. IPv6 is the latest version of the Internet Protocol, which allows computers to communicate on a network or the Internet, the largest network. World IPv6 Day is an event where some of the largest organizations on the Internet are participating in an 24-hour test flight to turn IPv6 on their main servers. The reasoning behind this is … [Read more...]
Apple Talks Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud at WWDC Keynote
The Apple Worldwide Developer Conference is on-going this week and with today's keynote there are a lot of much-speculated things being announced. Mac OS X Lion, iOS5, and iCloud are all being discussed. Mac OS X Lion, the next version of the Mac OS X operating system will be version 10.7, big cat named Lion. It touts over 250 features. … [Read more...]