June 20, 2011 ICANN Approves Historic Change to Internet’s Domain Name System. Plan to Launch New Generic Top-Level Domains Is Approved in Singapore.

“ICANN has opened the Internet’s naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today’s decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the domain name system to better serve all of mankind,” said Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN.

The subject of domain name registrations came up again into public view with ICANN announcement of new gTLDs rules and regulations.

News media reported yesterday that you can register any name you want for $185.000.00 and you have to hurry up because applications are accepted during three months only. The information is misleading and incomplete as usual in case of news involving Internet underlining principles.

In short gTLD is “global Top Level Domain” where TLD is .com .net .org or any other currently existing 22 gTLDs.

Applying for gTLD has nothing to do with Domain Name Registration.
Process of applying for gTLD makes sense for business that wants to become a “Domain Name Registrar”.

The sum of $185,000.00 is an application fee.
You need to pay $5,000.00 deposit.
New application period starts 12 January 2012 and ends 12 April 2012.
The process of approval may take anywhere from 8 to 18 months.
There are plenty of stringent rules and regulations.
Rejections are common.

The best page to get credible details on new gTLDs is the “Fact Sheet” page at

http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/factsheet-new-gtld-program-14apr11-en.pdf

Domain Name Registration is the process of registering domain name in a given TLD.
If you just want to have a domain name, you register it at your favorite Domain Name Registrar trough Domain Reseller like GoDaddy, 1and1, eNom and hundreds of others. Domain Reseller is usually not the Domain Registrar.

When you register “my-domain.com”, “my-domain” is domain part and “.com” is TLD.
The cost is around $10.00 per year. If the name if available, the registration is processed as soon as you can type your billing information. Then you own the “my-domain.com” domain name and have to host it somewhere or hoard it as many people do. There are many ways to use the domain names, but this will be subject for another day.

It has been reported by few people that Ping is “dead”.
Apple’s hopes to create a “social” service met with rejection and indifference.

Nobody, but me, embraced the new service trying to see what is was and how far it would get. I created Ping account the first day when the service was announced last year. My Ping is no more. I deleted it without regret. Nobody read it, nobody cared to make any comments. My favorite artists and songs were nowhere to be found. Bye Ping.

I do not have Facebook or Twitter account. It makes no sense to go with the crowd. Twitter is popular because of one persons bet or joke. Facebook is fading out. What happened to popular in the past Myspace and AOL ? Nobody is there anymore.

Amazing Google doodle today was dedicated to Les Paul.
The strings could be strummed by running the mouse over it. The sound was stereo. Strings on the left side produced the sound in the left speaker and the ones on the right in the right speaker.

What is more amazing you could record your strumming by pressing the black rectangle in the middle. I am not a musician, but you can play my doodle recording here http://goo.gl/doodle/4EwZx

Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009) known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible. He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.

Les Paul was born Lester William Polsfuss outside Milwaukee, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to George and Evelyn (1888–1989) (née Stutz) Polsfus. His family was of German ancestry. Paul’s mother was related to the founders of Milwaukee’s Valentin Blatz Brewing Company and the makers of the Stutz automobile. His parents divorced when he was a child. The Prussia family name was first simplified by his mother to Polfuss before he took his stage name of Les Paul. He also used the nicknames Red Hot Red and Rhubarb Red.

I watched Steve at WWDC 2011 keynote announce that MobileMe did not work and is no more.

It did not go well with me because I just renewed my annual subscription on May 12, just over three weeks ago. Immediately I logged in to my account at cancelled the service for a full refund. Information on Apple web site about account canceling and refunds said that refunds will be processed within 40 days. My refund was posted to my credit card account in only three days.

I had MobileMe or .mac as it used to be called on the beginning for several years. My thinking was that since I do some Mac related work it would look good to have an email in the form of myname@mac.com and later as myname@me.com.

Nobody even noticed my attention to detail. I still believe that it looks better if you have email address at the domain of your area of work.

If you own a domain name and have a working web site (“working” is imperative) then you list your “www”.your_domain_name.com on your business card. Your contact email address better be your_name@your_domain_name.com because I look at it first and judge your knowledge of basic business sense on that.

Ask yourself, how would it look to the customer if you work for AT&T and have email like bite_me@verizon.com ?

Is this “1″ fake or what?

You have to be blind or naive if you can not see anything wrong when looking at the official version of President Obama Certificate of Live Birth.

Check the page at the link below to see it for yourself.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/27/president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate

For your forensic pleasures you may be able to download it from the official government blog.
I found it at the direct link below.

http://whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

On YouTube there are plenty of videos demonstrating details of this blatant forgery.

The moral of the story is:
If you are exposed to public scrutiny and have something to hide, better hire top professionals in the trade who may be able to help you hide your secrets.

It would not be simpler to tell the truth?