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Ask Vint Cerf: The Road Ahead for Top-Level Domains

• Comment posted Jan 18, 2006 11:23 am PST — by gpmgroup.com
  Hi Vint, Do you think there is a possibility that expanding the number of gTLDs in the name of competition will paradoxically have the opposite effect? In that for the majority of people .com will become even more entrenched as…

Will Splogs Kill .INFO Domains?

• Comment posted Aug 28, 2006 11:49 pm PDT — by gpmgroup.com
  Representives from the major engines have stately publically that they do not weight on TLD. In our tests we have not seen any weighting on the TLD in the link. What matters is the content at the end of the…

• Comment posted Aug 28, 2006 1:42 am PDT — by gpmgroup.com
  This isn’t a stretch, since many search engines give bonus value to links from .edu domains. is a common fallacy. The Engines are agnostic towards the .TLD part of incoming links.

• Comment posted Aug 27, 2006 4:55 pm PDT — by gpmgroup.com
  A search of the engines for 'Spain' A .info site is No 3 out of 875,000,000 pages [url="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=spain&meta;=" title="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=spain<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=spain</a< <strong<A .info site is No 1 out of 311,000,000 pages</strong< <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=spain&fr=FP-tab-web-t500&toggle=1&cop;=&ei=UTF-8" " title="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=spain"]http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=spain[/url] A .info site is No 1 out…

MSN Messenger is Censoring .info Domains

• Comment posted Aug 07, 2007 1:51 pm PDT — by gpmgroup.com
  Suresh Ramasubramanian said: That's no more censorship than spam filtering is censorship of email.  They do need to be a bit less overbroad, perhaps, but given the horrible state of infestation that .info has (a few ccTLDs are in even…

Do We Need Two Internets?

• Comment posted May 16, 2008 8:20 pm PDT — by gpmgroup.com
  “But unlike Zittrain I think that regulation can help, and that putting control in the hands of democratically elected governments is far better than putting it in the hands of corporations.” I think ICANN is shortly going to be at…