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Summary: A powerful book on the historiography of the world wide web.
Comment: The Domain Name Handbook is an enlightning introduction to the subject of the Domain Naming System's liberation from a single organisation to a world of domain name competition and a biting indictment of the current flip-flop on the important question of expanding the domain name space.Reading it one gets the impression that the authors weave humour and storytelling with the diligence and enthusiasm of inquisitive writers to discuss an otherwise highly technical subject.
The work touches on all the issues that reverberate in the firmaments of political debates within ICANN and the domain name space community. The authors are definitely very well grounded in the history of the domain naming system and their familiarity with the sources are strengthened by insightful analysis of the psychology of the human beings who were selected by destiny to lead web surfers in their battle against typing bland numerical IP addresses into web browsers and instead enjoying easy to remember URLs.
Regardless of how one may think about their views on alternate domain name registries or root zones and their struggles against Network Solutions, one cannot deny that the brother sister duo of Peter and Ellen Rony are definite contributors to the evergrowing literature on the web's historiography.
Their book will remain here along with the companion website as a living testimony that they care very much about what happens to everyday netizens and did something about it by writing a powerful book.
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Summary: Domain Name Handbook is a good start for everyone
Comment: Domain Name Handbook is a good start for everyone with a living interest in domain names and the Internet. Please also look for DomainNameLaw.com soon to be released.
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Summary: The best resource for Domain Names
Comment: In the selection of our over 2000 domain names, we utilized the invaluable information contained in this book to best select superior e-commerce intellectual assets. Our website available-domain-names shows some of the domains that were selected as a result of reading this great book. Highly recommended by our senior partners as the definitive resource for intellectual assets selection.
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Summary: Easy-to-read overview of a complicated area.
Comment: As a lawyer who practices trademark law on the Internet, including domain name issues, I was very happy to see this book explore complicated areas like Internet governance, domain numbers and names, and trademark issues, all in an informative and easy-to-read style that does not talk down to the reader.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Easy-to-read overview of a complicated area
Comment: As a lawyer who practices trademark law on the Internet, including domain name issues, I was very happy to see this book explore complicated areas like Internet governance, domain numbers and names, and trademark issues, all in an informative and easy-to-read style that does not talk down to the reader. I also like and appreciate the authors' web site which provides an update of events and cases since publication of the hard copy. The book, combined with the web site, provide a first-rate current information service on the topics presented.
