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ICANN curb-stomps Domain Tasting

In the wake of Google's announcement of changes to AdSense that would discourage "Domain Tasters" comes ICANN making a decisive move and ending the practice once and for all.

One more step in the right direction, and hopefully it'll shake some decent domains that nobody intends to ever develop back into public availability.

Google Bombs Domain Tasters

According to the DomainTools blog, Google is set to put an end to it's involvement in Domain Tasting. [link]

This would help put an end to the myriad sites out there that are being used as nothing but Google Billboards with little-to-no content on them. And since ICANN has proven singularly unable to reach an intelligent policy regarding such practices, it represents the most effective way for market forces to prevent this hyper-commoditization of the online advertising market.

Sounds like a strong move from Big G.

Animated PNGs in Firefox 3

Ajaxian is reporting that the shiny-new Animated PNG standard will be included in Firefox 3.

Now if we poor, suffering, huddling masses of website designers can just get Microsoft to properly support regular PNGs in IE8, we'll be making some progress.

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