In the media

Could the Internet Fragment?

01/06/2006 http://www.spectrum.ieee.org

Alternative Nets raise the specter of balkanization.

Logging onto the Internet is billed as a universal experience. Yet for years, below the radar of most people's online experience, there have been sets of Internet domain names accessible to some people but not to everyone. Before the introduction of an official .biz domain, an independent .biz had existed for six years?and for a time the two survived in parallel, so that typing in a .biz address might send you to different sites, depending on which Internet service provider you had.

The Wall Street Journal Discusses Threat to Global Interconnectivity

19/01/2006 http://andreaweckerlecopywriting.typepad.com

January 19, 2006 - In Endangered Domain: In Threat to Internet´s Clout, Some Are Starting Alternatives today´s Wall Street Journal examines the creation of rivals to the Internet as we know it.

I recommend reading the article in its entirety. It´s a fascinating piece about the "what" and "why" of Internet politics and power.

Could rivals create a splinternet?

18/01/2006 http://news.treewalkdns.com

More than a decade after the Internet became available for commercial use, other countries and organizations are erecting rivals to it -- raising fears that global interconnectivity will be diminished.

Jon "maddog" Hall: Founding Member of UnifiedRoot Advisory Board.

17/01/2006 http://www.knowprose.com

I heard it through the grapevine that 'maddog' is now a founding member of the UnifiedRoot advisory board. That's cool! I only met him briefly at LinuxWorld last year, but he impressed me on a personal level. Mostly, I listened to he and Doc talk about stuff. Jon's involved in the background of a lot of things, and is probably best known for being the Executive Director of Linux International.

Unified Root introduces alternative domain naming system

28/11/2005 http://www.digitalmediaasia.com

by Ben Tanner

Amsterdam-based company Unified Root announced last week that is has created a simplified internet addressing system which allows the registration of more logical, memorable domain names. Unified Root's system dispenses with the usual suffixes (i.e. .com, .net, .org, etc.) in favor of complete words, for example '.company' or '.airport'

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