Friday, June 27, 2008

Climbing Trees: Plants Move Uphill as World Warms [Scientific American]
6:58:14 PM    

Internet group paves way for hundreds of new domains (AP).

Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, left, and President Paul Twomey, right, of the  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), look on during a meeting in Paris, Thursday, June 26, 2008. The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join '.com,' making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old addressing system. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - The Internet's key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old address system.


[Yahoo! News: Technology News]
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