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ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has given the go ahead to relax the rules on "top-level" domains. In short this means that at the moment we have .com, .co.uk, .org and other domains but in the future domains will be able to end in .anythingyoulike. For example it will now be possible to have domains ending in .hotel or .connexion. The bad news is that you can't just go out and buy one of these top level domains. You will need to show a "business plan and technical capacity" plus it will cost a few million...

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A recent survey published in .NET magazine claims that 83% of SME businesses don't improve their websites by acting on information which is readily available to them in the form of their website user statistics. This figure shocked me. I can only assume this is due to SME businesses either not realising how valuable this information is, or perceiving that interpreting it requires in depth technical skills. I guess there is also the possibility that they don't consider their websites to be important enough to warrant the time an effort, but it's hard to believe that the majority of small...

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Our intended audience for our blog are "Business Owners Managers" in Small and Medium sized companies. We recently received a study from Microsoft on "Owners Managers" where they compared the stereotype "Owner Manager" to the character Maximus in the movie "Gladiator" sighting issues such as "IT" "Cash Flow" and "HR" as metaphors for their daily battles. The point they were making was that owner managers don't have time to concern themselves with the nitty gritty of their Technology, ...

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