A LOT of the domain name bloggers have been talking about the launch of .xyz over the last few days. Prior to the launch Daniel Negari posted an article on his blog, which of course uses a .xyz domain, and was very optimistic about how the TLD would fare. I don't know Daniel Negari personally, although we have met a couple of times over the last couple of years. What I … [Read more...] about XYZ’s Launch Day Video
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Using Maths To Sort Out TLD Confusion
Stephane's latest post talks about an attempt to use a mathematical algorithm to help decide on which TLDs to allow in the future.The algorithm, which you can read more about here, works on the basis of comparing "strings" to see if they are confusing. It draws in part on the Levenshtein distanceIt will be interesting to see how ICANN make use of this tool in the months ahead, … [Read more...] about Using Maths To Sort Out TLD Confusion