Until now, Network Solutions, a registration company, was the main domain registrar.
Whether maliciously or inadvertently, the company's main domain name, panix.com, was somehow transferred to a company in Australia.
However, New.net's addresses exist outside the Internet's main domain name system, so not all Internet users can call up Web sites using those addresses.
One wrinkle that could upset the carefully designed rollout of new extensions for Internet addresses is competition from efforts that exist outside the main domain name system.
The kitchen was her main domain and, deaf to my cries that, actually, a sandwich for lunch would do, she'd impose on me yet more prosciutto, pasta, an extra slice of beef, a little cheese, cake, grapes, espresso.
Yet just when I'm convinced that the internet is the main domain of a gang of mass-escapees from Broadmoor, the amazingly agile minds of my new Facebook friends shimmy by.
As well as blocking phishing sites, IE8 now highlights the main domain name of a website, which should help prevent you from being duped into dropping sensitive personal details onto a dodgy website.
(To do so, you enter a star * before the main domain, e.g. *.example.com).com
