Some of you may be using my.netscape.com for your personalize start
pages, or one of the alternative sites such as my.userland.com.
You can now add DNSPolicy.com to your start page at netscape, and soon
at userland, by just going to the dnspolicy.com page and clicking on
the netscape channel icon at the top or bottom of the frontpage and
many of the internal pages.
http://www.dnspolicy.com/features/99/08/23/0048231.shtml has more
details.
If you have a website you can use various utilities to add headlines
or other shared content from various sites, including dnspolicy.com,
using the .rdf and .xml files, such as the ones at
http://www.dnspolicy.com/backend/
http://www.newsclipper.com/ is one multiplatform utility that is known
to work well for these purposes, and they have a free source GPL
version. There are others and I would suggest a search at
http://freshmeat.net/ for "rdf" and "xml" or maybe even just
"headlines" as starting points for find them. Also there are
resources on this at the Open Directory Project's site at
http://www.dmoz.org/ (search for rdf/xml/my netscape type of
keywords).
If you have something you have written that is germaine to DNS news or
DNS Policy and would like to see it contribute it to the DNSPolicy.com
community, let me know.
Also, right now I am the only one posting articles found in the news.
While I don't mind doing this at all, and indeed search anyways for my
own reference, one person is not likely to catch articles from the
plethora of sources out there. Please help keep the content fresh and
make the site useful, both for hardened veterans of the DNS Policy
process, as well as the newbies who are just trying to get up to
speed, but submitting article links for inclusion, or other resources.
The site has a new design/layout, and is slowly shaping up.
Coming this week :
-Links to ccTLD registry sites, and a compilation of
information and policies of the various ccTLDs (Netnames used
to have a very informative site that had this information, but
didn't link to the registries themselves, but I can no longer
find this on their website, and think it would be a useful
resource)
-Links to the various third level registry projects and
information/data/policies on them. This includes registries
such as eu.org, dhs.org, etc.
-Custom side boxes that will include headlines and links to
articles on various news sites pulled from their own rdf
backends (aiming to get this done this week, might take me a
week longer).
If you can think of any other links of interest (besides a link to
Ellen and Peter Rony's excellent book, which I will be adding
tomorrow), or other resources of interest, let me know.
The traffic to the site has been nice to see, and it has definitely
grown over the last week, which tells me that this is something people
are at least marginally interested in. Tell me what I can do to make
it of more interest/value to you, or in general.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
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William X. Walsh - DSo Internet Services
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Editor of http://www.dnspolicy.com/
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