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

• Comment posted Jan 18, 2006 2:24 am PST — by Bill Stewart
  Internationalized Domain Names really need work - Punycode is an ugly hack, and 7-bit-printable-subset ASCII simply doesn't cut it for too much of the world.  It's better than approaches like Sitefinder, which almost worked for the tcp 80 web and…

Another Try at Proof-of-Work e-Postage Email

• Comment posted Aug 09, 2006 8:18 pm PDT — by Bill Stewart
  Grandma's PC isn't likely to have trouble with her email, because it isn't set up to send her email directly - either it's using her ISP's SMTP server, or it's using some webmail server, or it's using whatever AOL morphs…

What If .COM Had Been Born With Site Finder?

• Comment posted Nov 16, 2006 2:52 am PST — by Bill Stewart
  What if .COM had been introduced with Sitefinder? First of all, people like Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris would have complained about whoever implemented it not getting the concept.  And when somebody tried to telnet or ftp or smtp to…

Rhetorical Questions on IDN TLD Approaches

• Comment posted Nov 18, 2006 1:18 am PST — by Bill Stewart
  The Punycode approach changes how DNS is used, in ways that break many things. "Many Things" means many more things than just browsers - it's all the other applications on the internet, some of which have user interfaces and some…

• Comment posted Nov 16, 2006 3:25 am PST — by Bill Stewart
  IDNs need to support all protocols, not just WWW! Most of the IDN proposals I've seen have really been designed to support International-character-set Web Pages, and use some kind of kluge to make HTTP 1.1 happy, and perhaps another kluge…

CNET Report Calling all Domainers "Cybersquatters", Blaming Cheap Domains

• Comment posted Oct 19, 2007 2:01 am PDT — by Bill Stewart
  "Domainers" are called that because they want to own domain names but aren't "actual interesting content providers" or "real businesses that name their website after themselves" or even "Dotcom 2.0 Bubble Hype Businesses with marketeer-named websites".  If they've got any…