Linked List: November 9, 2004

Tuesday, 9 November 2004

Netcraft: Domain Transfers (and Hijackings) to Become Easier ★

Just when you think ICANN can’t fuck things up any worse than they already have. According to Netcraft:

Domain names could become easier to hijack as a change in domain transfer rules takes effect Friday. Under new rules set by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), domain transfer requests will be automatically approved in five days unless they are explicitly denied by the account owner. This is a change from current procedure, in which a domain’s ownership and nameservers remain unchanged if there is no response to a transfer request.

(Via Jez, via AIM.)

Apple Mailing List RSS Feeds ★

RSS feeds are now available for all of Apple’s mailing lists. Cool.

They’ve also launched a new search feature for their mailing list archives. Also cool.

Ben Hammersley: New Comment Spam ★

Hammersley on a new wave of subtle comment spam.

Google Hosting Firefox Start Page ★

This is what a “portal” looks like circa 2004: utterly uncluttered.

Joe Clark: Worst Redesign of the Year ★

Joe Clark:

Corporate Web professionals labour under the delusion that they can stay insulated from trends in Web development. They feel free to create expensive new sites whose guts are no different from something published in, say, 1999. They’re like baby boomers who cannot stand any music released after 1979. The way they made Web sites while they were growing up works fine and dandy for them. Not only are no improvements necessary, as far as they’re concerned there are no improvements available to make, save for this Flash thing their kids keep telling them about. Their way is the state of the art — but, unbeknownst to them, back when they were learning to build Web sites we had no idea what the art actually was.