Web Design

By Sophie Borland
Last Updated: 7:01pm GMT 08/11/2007

The twin desires of businesses to be seen to be both technology savvy and environmentally friendly came together as a UK internet domain name sold for a record £150,000.

The site “recycle.co.uk” was bought by ASAP Ventures, a venture capital company and is the highest ever sale for a .co.uk name. It breaks the previous record paid by J Sainsbury for the site taste.co.uk which was bought for £110,000 in 1997. (more…)

Written by Dan Krimm
Monday, 12 November 2007
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which makes policy governing the Internet’s Domain Name System, recently held its 30th International Public Meeting in Los Angeles. ICANN has stumbled into serious controversy as it threatens to establish policies for systematic censorship of generic top-level domains (”gTLDs” such as ‘.com’ or ‘.org’), and it left these issues unresolved as it ended the week with a meeting of the Board of Directors on Friday, November 2nd. (more…)