ICANN, de internationale standaardenorganisatie voor domeinnamen, moet ervoor zorgen dat minder domeinen onder valse gegevens ingeschreven staan, zo meldt ZDNet. Daarnaast moet de organisatie het moeilijker maken bulkmailings de deur uit te doen op basis van de informatie uit WHOIS, een database met informatie over registreerders van domeinnamen. Dit zegt een door de organisatie zelf ingestelde onderzoeksgroep. De groep beveelt aan dat bedrijven die domeinnamen registreren voortaan bij het vernieuwen van een domeinnaam gaan kijken of de contactinformatie nog steeds klopt. Ook bij het opnieuw registreren van een domeinnaam nadat deze vervallen is, moeten de gegevens gecontroleerd worden:
The task force also proposed stricter rules for those seeking to re-register a domain name once it has been deleted because of false information or because the registrant did not respond in time to an inquiry.
Under current ICANN policies, registrar organizations are encouraged, but not required, to verify information from people who have submitted false information. The proposal would mandate that registrars verify contact information before making the customer's Web site and e-mail operable again.
The task force also proposed stricter rules for those seeking to re-register a domain name once it has been deleted because of false information or because the registrant did not respond in time to an inquiry.



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It's clear that every interface has its own advantages and shortcomings. SCSI means reliability and high performance, but also high price. Moreover, it needs a costly controller. IDE means huge capacities and much lower storage cost for 1MB than in SCSI HDDs. But IDE drives are much less reliable and to build a fault-tolerant disk subsystem you need to combine them into mirror RAID arrays (and this requires at least one more drive and a RAID-controller).
Global DRAM leader Samsung Electronics and leading Taiwanese DDR maker Nanya Technology have lowered early December contract prices quoted to OEMs, distributors reported. Samsung has lowered its 256Mbit DDR contract prices to US$58-60 per module. Hynix Semiconductor, in need of cash to pay off bank loans, is shoving DDR die at distributors, eager to sell as much as possible, the distributors added. Spot prices for 128 and 256Mbit DDR have dropped to US$3-3.50 and US$6-6.50, respectively.
The company plans to ship more higher-margin CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drives and cut DVD-ROM drive shipments back by 3-5% next year. It expects to ship 40 million optical storage drives in total, of which 15 million units will be CD-ROM drives, 10 million CD-RW drives, six million combo drives, six million to 6.8 million DVD-ROM drives and three million other products.

"Younger folks have the idea that 'older' people just don't play online games. From people in my generation, there is even more lack of understanding," says Martha McDermott, a fifty-two-year-old mother of two and former psychologist. While she encourages her son's online gaming, her estranged husband's family regards the behaviour as "aberrant and unhealthy," severely limiting the youth's time online.
Doordat de computermarkt vrij zwak is op het ogenblik, hebben producten met een lager prijskaartje een streepje voor. Microsoft heeft laten weten dat OEM's hun beslissingen vooral nemen op basis van de economische omstandigheden. De alternatieven voor Office komen vooral voor op low-end systemen, waar meer op de prijs dan op de kwaliteit wordt gelet, aldus een woordvoerder van het bedrijf.
Sven Myhre
The main problem with slow XScales has nothing to do with XScale (which are based upon ARM v5) 'emulating' StrongARM code (which is ARM v4) no more than you would say a Pentium 4 'emulates' a Pentium 3 when running Windows XP.
Basically, the 1.25 GHz dual G4 PowerMac is slower than most high end PCs (including single-processor ones), but it is not totally defenseless. In multi-threaded content creation applications, it can perform like a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 and even a 3.06 GHz one. Considering that Content Creation is still the main reason why people buy Macs, this isn't bad at all. And while it may seem trivial to some, it must be said that the Apple PowerMac does feature a very nice system chassis that provides easy access to components.
David Miller, a Red Hat employee in charge of the UltraSparc III version of Linux, received documentation on the processor after signing a nondisclosure agreement with Sun. Still, he said in an e-mail interview, it wasn't simple: To deduce Sun hardware bugs the company didn't tell him about, Miller had to decode Sun's upgrades to Solaris.

