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The domain name net is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from network, indicating its originally intended purpose was for organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies. However, restrictions were never enforced and the domain is now a general purpose name space. It is still popular with network operators, and is often treated as an alternate to com. net is one of the original top-level domains (the other five being com, edu, gov, mil, and org) despite not being mentioned in RFC 920, having been created in January 1985. As of 2011, it is the third most popular top-level domain, after .com and .de. Verisign, the operator of net after acquiring Network Solutions, held an operations contract that expired on June 30, 2005. ICANN, the organization responsible for domain management, sought proposals from organizations to operate the domain upon…
Toshiba America Consumer Products L.L.C. (“Toshiba”), a market leader in LCD TVs, today announced the availability of the new UX600 LED TV, offering breakthrough picture quality with advanced…
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Read moreWhat’s new in this release: Improved support for the .NET framework. Better services handling through a separate services.exe process. Support for ATI fragment shader. Better support for http…
Read moreMono is a project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and…
Read moreKuala Lumpur, 19 December2007– In recent years, Malaysia has grown to earn its place on the world map as an emerging information technology (IT) hotspot in the region,…
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