Tag: url
WordPress servers crash, 10.2 million blogs affected
WordPress, a massively popular blogging and hosting platform suffered severe problems yesterday, causing some 10.2 million blogs to go offline for almost two hours. It has been estimated that 5.5 million page views were wiped, the worst outage WordPress has…
Sex.com is up for sale!
Feeling both saucy AND entrepreneurial? Then you'll be pleased to hear that the Sex.com URL is up for sale, with the bidding starting at a measly $1 million. It's been a chequered history for Sex.com, the subject of both a…
P8tch – your wearable URL
The P8tch is the ultimate in geek utility-wear. Not only does it look completely safe and all psuedo-military like but it’s useful too because it also happens to be a mobile phone scannable URL that’ll take the reader to any web page you desire.
So, for example, it could be the RSS feed for your blog, your Flickr page…
Korea/Japan Week: Domain suffix '.asia' launched, hear cheap electronics companies squeal with delight
The domain ‘.xxx’ may not have been allowed the other month, but ‘.asia’ has been given the all-clear by ICANN – which may very well target the same sites, to be honest.
A Hong Kong-based company, DotAsia, won the right to set up the domain, which is pretty luck for namesake’s, err, sake. “The .asia domain acts like a channel or a portal, showing your commitment to the Asia market as a whole,” said Edmon Chung from DotAsia about the deal. It’s thought that…
