Google sued over parked domain ads. Occult practices bound to typosquatting, domain tasting, domain parking or more generally to the Domain Name monetization seem directly aimed

DNS (Domain Name Server) is basically a system to convert domain names
into IP addresses. Domain names are easier to understand, memorize and write for humans while computers only use IP addresses to communicate.Most of the people using OpenDNS as the first alternative, But Now Google Public DNS is available and the performance is much better.

The organisation that owns the linux.conf.au domain name is nonplussed at the possibility it could be killed off by the Australian Domain Name Administrator (AUDA).

In this article, I give you the steps you need to use Samba to join to a Windows domain. The primary domain controller (PDC) will serve as the password server for the domain. If Samba and winbind services are running, turn them off. I will show you how turn them on after you join to the Windows domain.

Most Linux users assume there will never come a time when they will be able to join their machines to a Microsoft Windows domain. It's always been off-limits. You could take your Linux laptop in to work, but you could never work within that domain. That is officially history. With recent updates to many of the systems and sub-systems in Linux comes the ability to now join a Windows domain.

The European Commission has published a review of the Europeana digital library (remember that?). There's one critically important section, which touches on the hot issue of digitising public domain content:

Test DNS Settings. Before you begin check your DNS settings be sure to review /etc/resolv.conf for the DNS servers listed. This file is important because the tools you use to test DNS will typically use the domain name servers listed in this file.

OpenDomain.org is an organization that offers to provide free use of certain domain names to worthwhile open source projects. Ric Johnson, the leader of OpenDomain.org and the owner of dozens of domain names, says he has spent thousands of dollars registering those domains in order to prevent "squatters and phishers" from snapping them up.

Today, Creative Commons announces the release of the Public Domain Mark, a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public, and allows the works to be easily discovered over the Internet.