According to "Whois" searches today, the registrations for most of the crown jewels in AOL Time Warner's Internet address portfolio have expired.
AOLTimeWarner.com, the domain name used by the media conglomerate for its corporate home page, lapsed on Jan. 9. A number of other AOL registrations expired last year, including AOL.com, Netscape.com, Winamp.com, and ICQ.com, domain records showed today. AOL's Compuserve.com domain, which hosts the company's own system for checking Internet name registrations, is perhaps the most delinquent, having expired Oct. 4, 2001.
A participant in an online forum at the WebmasterWorld.com site observed Monday that the domain registration for Dmoz.org, the home page of Netscape's Open Directory Project, expired on Jan. 2.
Typically when a consumer fails to renew a domain after a grace period, the registrar that processed the registration will instruct Verisign, which operates the central registry of domain name records, to delete the registration. Once a domain has been purged from the registry, the name is available for registration by others on a first-come basis.
AOL officials today said a software glitch in the company's domain registration system is producing inaccurate information during domain name "Whois" searches. "I can assure you with great confidence that the domain names we have on file have not expired," said AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham, who reported that AOL will update its system so that the expiration dates are correctly displayed. According to Graham, AOL has designated all of its domain names to renew automatically when they reach their expiration.
AOL's domain registrations are all held by the company's own domain registration business, which operates a minimal homepage at http://www.registrar.aol.com .
One of the first registrars accredited by ICANN in 1999, AOL has yet to begin taking registrations from the public – despite predictions from analysts that the company would develop a robust domain business aimed at consumers and would give the incumbent, Verisign, some heavy competition.
News source: Newsbytes
View: Registration info for AOL.com - Netscape.com - Winamp.com - ICQ.com - Compuserve.com
AOLTimeWarner.com, the domain name used by the media conglomerate for its corporate home page, lapsed on Jan. 9. A number of other AOL registrations expired last year, including AOL.com, Netscape.com, Winamp.com, and ICQ.com, domain records showed today. AOL's Compuserve.com domain, which hosts the company's own system for checking Internet name registrations, is perhaps the most delinquent, having expired Oct. 4, 2001.
A participant in an online forum at the WebmasterWorld.com site observed Monday that the domain registration for Dmoz.org, the home page of Netscape's Open Directory Project, expired on Jan. 2.
Typically when a consumer fails to renew a domain after a grace period, the registrar that processed the registration will instruct Verisign, which operates the central registry of domain name records, to delete the registration. Once a domain has been purged from the registry, the name is available for registration by others on a first-come basis.
AOL officials today said a software glitch in the company's domain registration system is producing inaccurate information during domain name "Whois" searches. "I can assure you with great confidence that the domain names we have on file have not expired," said AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham, who reported that AOL will update its system so that the expiration dates are correctly displayed. According to Graham, AOL has designated all of its domain names to renew automatically when they reach their expiration.
AOL's domain registrations are all held by the company's own domain registration business, which operates a minimal homepage at http://www.registrar.aol.com .
One of the first registrars accredited by ICANN in 1999, AOL has yet to begin taking registrations from the public – despite predictions from analysts that the company would develop a robust domain business aimed at consumers and would give the incumbent, Verisign, some heavy competition.
News source: Newsbytes View: Registration info for AOL.com - Netscape.com - Winamp.com - ICQ.com - Compuserve.com
'Change the world'
"To go through a two-hour operation I would say is a little bit extreme for a publicity stunt," he told the BBC.
"To say no you can't do this or this is publicity is absolutely crazy at this stage when we haven't even looked at it."
He said the £500,000 ($715,000) experiment was about "seriously helping people" with spinal injuries.
He added: "This has not been done on a human before so for someone to say this is not going to tell us much ... we don't know.
"We really don't know but we want to find out what sort of signals we are going to get and what sort of signals we can put in."
Researchers at the university's department of cybernetics will carry out experiments on Warwick for about a month.
It is hoped the science could one day help actor Christopher Reeve
He said: "What we're doing is historic and momentous. It is going to change the world.
"Science fiction has predicted this for quite some time. As a scientist, I'm excited about taking a step into the future.
"But as a human I do share the ethical concerns about what it will mean for humanity."
Warwick also hopes to wire himself up to a ultrasonic sensor, used by robots to navigate around objects, to give himself a bat-like sixth sense.
He believes the technique could be developed within a decade to restore movement to a tetraplegic's hand or feeling to a prosthetic leg used by an amputee.
"For someone like Christopher Reeve, it might not bring back complex movement. But if it could allow him to control a bit of technology to pick up a cup, it would be enormously useful," he said.
Warwick has already been a guinea pig for his own experiments.
In 1998 a silicon chip, which turned on lights and opened doors when he walked into his office, was implanted in his arm
Commenting has either been disabled on this article or you are not logged in. Click here to login or register, its free!
Note: Anonymous commenting is disabled in order to keep the quality of responses to a high standard.