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DNSSEC Adds Security to URLs
A technology almost two decades in the making finally rolled out into active use today. DNSSEC, or Domain Name System Security Extensions is a security protocol by which an IP address (the series of numbers that is a website's actual location) and the URL, or the words in the web address, are justified.
13 name registrars handling the .org top-level domain, including the largest, Go Daddy, are offering DNSSEC, according to PCWorld. That alone is reason to believe all registrars will do the same in short order. VeriSign plans to add it to .net by the end of the year.
Twitter Advertises URL Shortener as Phish Poison
Twitter's URL shortening service, t.co, is being advertised as a way to avoid stumbling into phishing scam. Shorteners make it easier to microblog, but they also make it easier for grifters to blind their online marks.
"A link converted by Twitter's link service is checked against a list of potentially dangerous sites. When there's a match, users can be warned before they continue."
ICANN Frees Country Codes from Latin Letters
Starting today, countries can use Internet country code top-level domains that are independent of the Latin alphabet, according to Internet regulating body ICANN.
As it currently stands, a site in Saudi Arabia must use ".sa" as its root. Now it can use the Arabic equivalent and leave off translating. Egypt, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are the first to take advantage of this.
StumbleUpon Launches Su.pr URL Shortener, But Is It Good for the Magic?
Social serendipity service StumbleUpon began opening up its new URL shortening service this morning and we have 250 invites included below. StumbleUpon is great for two things: discovering fabulous new websites and getting waves of traffic sent to sites you publish. The new URL service is indeed quite Su.pr (that's its name) but we wonder if it will lead to such an influx of publisher-submitted content that content submitted by users because it's cool will have more noise to compete with.
For publishers the service looks very cool, it includes features we haven't seen anywhere else and offers access to the huge Stumble audience.
Sqworl: A Lightbox for Shared Links
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're big fans of URL shorteners (although not all URL shorteners mind you). We use them for microblogging sites where we have to conserve characters, tracking how many people are clicking through links we share, and keeping groups of links organized. That's why we like Sqworl, a URL shortener that acts like a lightbox for links we're sharing.
Krunchd: Another URL Shortener... with an Interesting Twist
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're no strangers to URL shortening services. We use them all of the time - and we're proponents of using something other than TinyURL. But with the vast array of URL shortening services out there, it generally takes something interesting to turn our heads. Now, a new URL shortener called Krunchd has done just that, by providing a feature that has less to do with shortening URLs and more to do with how we communicate with URLs on a regular basis.
One Year Later, Too Many People Are Still Using TinyURL
One year ago link shortening service TinyURL experienced an extended period of down time and we argued that the outage illustrated serious risks associated with the service. One year later, the landscape doesn't look any less bleak. A search of the web turns up complaint after complaint after complaint about TinyURL being down and links being broken - apparently for at least a day or two every month.
People should stop using TinyURL! In the following post we'll list a few reasons why this is important and point you towards some of the best alternative link shorteners.
Weekly Wrapup, 19-23 May 2008
Here are some of the highlights from the week's Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we explored: next gen apps outside the browser, uses for wikis, Facebook's usefulness (or lack thereof), the public launch of Google Health, and 4 promising mobile social networks. On the trends side we analyzed: the Mobile Web, how to utilize Social Media in education and social change, and the state of the URL. Last but not least we covered this week's SemTech conference, about the Semantic Web.
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