North Temple is Down
Jul 29, 2008 Uncategorized
One of my favorite blogs about design and usability has been down for several days and I’m starting to go through withdrawls.
Now they know a lot more about usability and design than I do, so I’m not one to criticize, but couldn’t they have gotten the new design ready and then switched it over in one fell swoop? (Isn’t that usability 101?)
Worst Idea Ever… .anything Domain Names
Jul 22, 2008 Uncategorized
I just read that ICANN is considering opening the floodgates to webmasters so they can register any top-level-domain with at least three characters.
Not good.
The only people who will benefit from this are spammers, phishers, domain-squatters, and fraudsters. Imagine getting an email asking you to download document.doc. You’ll assume it’s a Word file. Wrong… it could be a link to a phishing website located at http://www.document.doc.
Do we need more TLDs? Yes. But there should be a thorough vetting process before releasing them into the wild.
Tags: domain name, domain registration, domains, icann, tld, top level domain, web design
