* Posts by Graeme Evans

2 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Sep 2014

Someone (cough, cough VeriSign) just gave ICANN $135m for the rights to .web

Graeme Evans

Page update

Interestingly, I see two companies listed on that page, for the string 'web/webs'. One is Nu Dot Co LLC, as mentioned in the article. The other is Vistaprint Limited. Same Contention Set number, same amount of dosh forked over, same auction date.

From Wikipedia (yes, I know): 'Vistaprint is a global, e-commerce brand that produces physical and digital marketing products for small and micro businesses. It was one of the first businesses to offer its customers the capabilities of desktop publishing through the internet when it first launched in 1999. Vistaprint is wholly owned by Cimpress N.V., a publicly traded company based in the Netherlands'.

...so it looks like they're making a play for something?

Oh God the RUBBER on my SHAFT has gone wrong and is STICKING to things

Graeme Evans
Boffin

The Reasoning

Here's an interesting treatise on the subject. Looks like there's multiple reasons, not necessarily easy to segregate:

http://www.bouncing-balls.com/chemistry_tech_conservation/ageing.htm