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Cyberview: master of your domain

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The domain name squabble over the Internet comes across as a governance issue, and not as a genuine effort to use Internet domain names to facilitate the search activity. Despite the seeming chaotic nature of the Internet, many of its users are the ones establishing the conventions used on the Internet.

Author: Grossman, Wendy M.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
Analysis, Internet/Web search services, Search engines

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No way to run a network

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A plan to create global top-level domains for the Internet and open them up to competition has been technically sucessful but has encountered political opposition. Both Network Solutions Inc and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers are targets of criticism.

Author: Grossman, Wendy M.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
Domain names, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Network Solutions Inc. (Herndon, Virginia), NSOL

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Bringing down the Internet

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Incorrect routing of Internet traffic, either accidental or intentional, can possibly lead to crippling of the Internet. Destabilization of the Internet system results when a misconfigured router successfully passed an incorrect traffic path to other routers.

Author: Grossman, Wendy M.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1998
Bridge/routers, Bridge routers (Network hardware)

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