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  • What's in a name? Not Palladium

    Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword-bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing base."

  • Domain Names Australia fires back at regulator

    A legal dispute between Internet company Domain Names Australia (DNA) and domain name regulator auDA has turned nasty, with the company publicly questioning auDA's legal authority to regulate the industry.

  • US-CERT to unveil global worm-naming plan

    Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Among the plethora of identifiers, perhaps the most useful -- CME-540 -- didn't make an impact.

  • Your .name here--Net's new domain

    Now on the Internet--personalized domain names. The Global Name Registry launches the .name suffix, to be handed out to individuals.

  • ICANN confirms date for .name release

    The Internet's governing body will soon be making it easier for individuals to register their names as personal URLs, after confirmation that the new top level domain name (TLD) .name will be available by the end of August.

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  • US-CERT to unveil global worm-naming plan

    Zotob.E, Tpbot-A, Rbot.CBQ and IRCbot.worm: all names given to a single worm that wreaked havoc in Windows 2000 systems last month. Among the plethora of identifiers, perhaps the most useful -- CME-540 -- didn't make an impact.

  • Intel names mobile chip family

    Intel has announced a new brand name for its next-generation mobile processor technology: Centrino.

  • How to solve IP host name resolution problems

    There are several layers of complexity in IP host name resolution that can make the process error filled. Here's how you can fix these problems quickly.

  • Windows Server's identity crisis

    Microsoft changes the name of its high-end server software for the third time. Windows Server 2003 is scheduled for an April release.

  • Keeping ahead of DNS attacks

    The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority, making organisations literally "masters of their own domain".

Reviews (3)

  • What's in a name? Not Palladium

    Microsoft has dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium, in favor of this buzzword-bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure computing base."

  • Intel names mobile chip family

    Intel has announced a new brand name for its next-generation mobile processor technology: Centrino.

  • Who do you work for again?

    Somehow it seems to me that the naming game is just getting a bit too ridiculous.

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