CNNIC recently updated its rules about who can register a .cn domain name. Basically only registered companies in China. OK. This was on 11 December 2009. GoDaddy wait until 5 February 2010 until they send an email to registrants with details of a list of paper work that must be submitted by 12 February 2010. That is, they give us one weeks notice. Here’s the thing. They don’t say in the email where the paperwork is to be submitted. Or if it has to be paper. Or if scans are OK. Only it is to be submitted. Duh!…

Well this is all over the blogs this morning. Google’s reviewing its China ops and will stop censoring google.cn search results - announced on the official Google blog, which is on blogspot, which is blocked in China…

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The Guardian have put together a decent Flash app illustrating the history of the internet as part of their internet is 40 series.

Fascinating History of the Internet post over at Six Revisions. In which we discover I am older than the Internet. Groan…

So, my Dad and Mum came over for a visit recently and we got talking about Wikipedia. They’d never looked at it before so I pulled it up at the page for Cleethorpes (where they live) and I was scrolling through it showing them the page when my Dad’s name leapt out at me. Wow. Fame at last. He’s web famous for helping Cleethorpes win a gold award in the RHS’s Britain in Bloom competition. Proud son.

Yahoo Pipes is very cool. Proof at last that the Internet is a series of tubes.