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This could have massive repercussions with domain name registrations. I am still trying to get my head around it.

The guardian writes this:

Icann, the organisation that regulates the internet domain name system, has passed a landmark vote to relax rules limiting web addresses to "top-level" suffixes, such as .com and .uk, a move that could see people and companies register almost anything they want.

The unanimous vote, held in Paris today, also approved a second proposal to allow domain names written in languages other than English, such as Arabic.

Today's Icann vote effectively means that Coca Cola could, for example, register .cocacola; or that a person could have a web address ending with their surname.

Individuals will be able to register a domain based on their own name, as long as they can show a "business plan and technical capacity".

This weeks GGB is Rebellious Arab Girl, Mona. Her survey is below.

Geek Girl Profile -

Name: Mona
Screen Name: RebelliousArabGirl
Personal Blog: http://www.rebelliousarabgirl.net
Social Networks: Twitter, MyBlogLog, Mashable.
Current Employment: Sr. Multimedia Programmer
Location: Canada

What is your motivation for blogging?

I had too many reasons to say NO! to everything wrong that I saw in my life and needed to be addressed and questioned.

Geek Girl Profile -

Name: Laurel Papworth
Screen Names: SilkCharm or Laurel Papworth.
Personal Blogs:
http://silkcharm.blogspot.com (social networks blog)
http://laurelpapworth.com (corporate site)
http://bloggerati.com.au (not a blog but a social news site on Web 2.0 in Australia)
http://mymobilepals.com  (mobile phone social networks)
Social Networks:
Bebo, BlogTalkRadio, Cyworld, del.ico.us, Digg, Dopplr, Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Friends Reunited, Furl, Hi5, Jaiku, Last.FM, Linked In, Ma.gnolia.com, MyBlogLog, MySpace, NewsVine, Ning, Plurk, Pownce, Second Life, Slideshare, Social Networks blog, SocialThing, StumbleUpon, Technorati, ThisIsMyJam, Tumblr, Twitter, Upcoming, Vimeo, Wikipedia, YouTube.

Wow – what an amazing website. Not only is the content fascinating – well to me anyway – I love old world war 1 and 2 vintage airplanes – and these machines a beauties – but the website is also a work of art. (and they are Kiwis!)

The Vintage Aviator is an amazing website. The developers have spent countless hours putting this together. There is a full description of what they did to make this work on the Drupal website.

They list all the modules they use as well as the custom modules developed and other tweaks they had to do. The developer, dman also explains how they solved the CSS issues (including ignoring some of the IE6 issues).

This is a great site – congrats to all involved.