me talking out loud

I try and keep up with the news and obviously things that pertain to the web catch my attention. Reading this morning’s news I noted a blip (paragraph) in an article about ICANN and RegisterFly. Since I had not heard anything related to either i decided to do a bit of investigating.

Turns out that RegisterFly is mid-sized a registrar for domain names and by the end of the month it will have it’s accreditation revoked by ICANN for fundamental breaches in the ICANN contract. The controversy? Well according to the news sources I have read they have had deteriorating customer service that has lead to people losing their domains, being unable to transfer to competitors, having domains whois data changed, and the locking of domains - breaking the “rules” of an ICANN accredited registerer - and all of which the customers have been unable to do anything about.

The customers then turned to ICANN for assistance . Only one problem - ICANN does not see itself as a regulator and provided no public forums for problems such as this.

As one whose liveliness can quite easily be linked to a specific website - losing control of that site (and thus my ability to make money) would be incredibly stressful. Not just for the money involved - but the work involved in nurturing the site to where it currently is (not quite a child - but…). websites come and go - so it’s (and by reflection my) reputation mean a lot.

So now it seems that ICANN at a meeting to be held in Lisbon this week will be reviewing it’s various procedures amongst other things. Will ICANN change it’s purpose and role - don’t know, but it should be interesting to see what the fall out of all this will be.

The News articles I read:
Business Week
Washington Post
The Register
Internet Search Engine Database

I need to get this book. Just reading the Web entry for “Socially Awkward/Possibly Deep Computer Geek (Cyberdorkus perpetuum)” had me just about ready to cry from laughter. It seems to be an old book - but I can handle that.

for anyone who cares:

i wont be continueing my story the ulimate warrior for the fact that i’m sort of copy writing it off of a show i watch. but i doubt many of those who will see this will care so scrol down (or up) to w/e is new in the world that my mom posted

Kid ^_^;

As a member of ACM I regularly get tech news announcements. This happened to be one of them. Below is from the W3C home page:

2007-03-07: W3C is pleased to invite participation in the new HTML Working Group, chartered to create the next HTML standard with the active participation of browser vendors, software developers, and content designers. “It’s time to revisit the standard and see what we can do to meet the current community needs, and to do so effectively with commitments from browser manufacturers in a visible and open way,” said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director.

Now I have to admit to being curious about what is going on - after all anything new dealing with the web affects me as PHP coder. Since the W3C is supposedly interested in input from the Web community and content developers, I decided to see who from PHP would be there. Granted it is very early for the formation of the group so it didn’t really surprise me to see no one from PHP that I know or heard about in there, but I wonder if anyone from the PHP Group will become a “invited expert” somewhere down the road.

Oh I know - they already are extremely busy working on the various PHP versions (for which I thank them), and this would only add more work to people who are already doing more then their fair share. But a girl can wish - can’t she.

(And just because I know there will be someone out there that says/thinks I should do it since I’m sitting here talking about it… Well I must admit to considering it - but I really am not qualified for something like this. Though I do wish I was.)

Found this in the news and while not a huge comic book fan definitely caught my attention. He has got to come back. You can’t have comics and not have Captain America.