At present (25 years after the first domain(Symbolics.com) being registered) ,most of the domains are taken so that we might depend on Numbered domains in future.All the four letter Domains (Say xcsz.com, yqrt.com etc) are taken and are almost over in the case of  5 letters !

On March 15, 1985, a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name.

Although Symbolics.com didn’t spark an instant gold rush, the event planted the first seed of a transformation that has changed the world into a Web-fueled digital river of news, commerce and social interaction.

Today, exactly 25 years later, life B.C - Before .Com - is already a distant memory, especially in the tech-centric Bay Area.

“Can you remember what it was like before the Internet, before .com?” said Mark McLaughlin, president and chief executive officer of VeriSign Inc. of Mountain View. “What about the next 25 years? Who can imagine that?”

VeriSign, the Internet security vendor that administers the .com registry, is hosting an event in Washington on Tuesday celebrating the milestone, with former President Bill Clinton scheduled to deliver a keynote address. And on May 26 in San Francisco City Hall, VeriSign will honor Internet innovators at a “25 Years of .com Gala” hosted by comedian Dana Carvey.

In a relatively short time, the dot-com revolution has “woven itself into every nook and cranny of the commercial world,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, a Washington think tank that studies the social impacts of the Internet. “It usually takes technologies a lot longer to insinuate themselves into the basic rhythms of people’s lives.”

But there was hardly a ripple when Symbolics Inc., a Cambridge, Mass., maker of computer systems and software based on research done at MIT, signed up the first .com with Network Solutions, the domain registration firm that was acquired by VeriSign in 2000.

Symbolics founders who were contacted for this story didn’t even remember the event. The assets and intellectual property of the original publicly traded Symbolics Inc. have been taken over by a privately held firm of the same name. The Symbolics.com Web site still exists, but was purchased in 2009 by XF.com, an Internet domain investment firm.

In 1985, only six entities registered a .com, one of six top-level domain names created a year earlier in a reorganization of the early Internet’s naming bureaucracy. At the time, .cor (short for corporate) almost beat .com as the designation for commercial Internet addresses.

Rainie said Symbolics.com signaled the entry of an entrepreneurial spirit to a nascent online world dominated by a “libertarian leftist” class that saw the Internet as a way to “democratize power” and circumvent big powerful institutions like government and big business.

Internet historians believe the Internet would have evolved “very differently if commercial interests had not asserted themselves, particularly at the dawn of the Web, but even in the pre-Web period,” Rainie said.

By 1992, fewer than 15,000 .com domains were registered, but the number would flourish after Web browsers brought mainstream consumers into the World Wide Web and “made it so convenient to navigate,” McLaughlin said.

Since then, .coms have defined the Internet. Now there are 84 million domain names, including 11.9 million e-commerce and online business sites, 4.3 million entertainment sites, 3.1 million finance-related sites and 1.8 million sports sites.

According to a study released today by the Information Technology & Information Foundation, the annual economic benefits of the commercial Internet equal $1.5 trillion, which is “more than the global sales of medicine, investment in renewable energy and government investment in R&D (research and development) combined.”

The Internet should add $3.8 trillion to the global economy by 2020, which would exceed the gross domestic product of Germany, the report said. An estimated 1.7 billion people, 25.6 percent of the world’s population, now use the Internet.

“One can rightly describe the commercial Internet as a general-purpose technology, one whose significance to society should be viewed as on par with the advent of inexpensive steel, the telephone, the internal combustion engine or electricity,” according to the report, “The Internet Economy 25 Years After .Com.”

VeriSign logs 53 billion Web site lookups every day, about the same number handled for all of 1995, McLaughlin said. “We expect that to grow in 2020 to somewhere between 3 and 4 quadrillion,” he said.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/15/BUS61CEVQ6.DTL#ixzz0nVdWF3MW

I was on a break in Blogging now a days as I had to manage my other sites,But I came to comment in another blog which  made me irresistible to blog again.Considering the shortage of Technical stuffs in this blog ,This post is about hidden files in Windows.

Sometimes you might not be able to change the option to Show the hidden files in your windows(May be of virus or any other) so that hidden files remain hidden itself.Here is a fix for this problem in which you need to get in to the registry and change the values.

Just run the Registry Editor by typing  “regedit”  from Start>>Run

In the registry editor follow this path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\
Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

In the right hand side change the value of “hidden” to 1 and you are done! Changing it to zero will hide it again.

Cuil is the latest Search Engine which came out challenging Google,saying that their search results are far better than google.It was heard that lots of main Engineers from google and Microsoft put their hands together in CUIL.My question to them.Why did you guys quit google for making such a CRAP thing?

Proof

No need of much proof.Just search Bizhat in Cuil and see the results.Bizhat is one of the most popular portals in India.I can only say that no search engine can bring such a worse result!

Google leads and google itself is the King in Search!Beating Google is nearly impossible,as the search results are pretty accurate.And it is also unknown why the medias are giving much publicity to these types of Holy Craps!

Blogging became much popular in India last year and resulted in the formation of lots of Bloggers in India.At the present situation Blog is not at all a strange thing even to an average internet user.Even small kids make blogs now a days(Eventhough they dont know much about it,they just make it for fun!).

Flashback

Why Blogging Boom occured in India?

1. Better Internet facilities compared to past

A revolutionary change was the arrival of BroadBand replacing the primitive dial up connections .Broad Band connections was able to deliver about 50 times the speed of dial up connections.That is a man could save his time to 1/50! The popularity of GPRS also played a key role.GPRS facility at the moment is popular as internet!

2.Arrival of Blogger!

It was Blogger( Blogspot Blogs) which publicized blogging to a great exent.Who is’nt interested to make a website of their own without losing a single money from their pocket?! As a google product,Blogger got into the public within a short period or Google was able to show their Midas Touch once again!

3.The Popularity of Orkut!

Orkut and Blogs are not co-related but the widget based structure of Orkut stood very much similar to Blogs which made blogs familiar to newbies.

4.Making Money from Blogs or arrival of Google Adsense

Monetizing blogs arouse as another trend, a general concept was that anyone can make money from Blogging by creating blogs and monetizing them.As money ,being the ultimate aim of any human being another blogger species arose who aimed at money but not at blogging .So in general 3 species of bloggers came into existence

1.Bloggers for Money

2.Bloggers to spread their ideas(They usually don monetize their blogs)

3.Personal Blogs

Successful Bloggers

Only a very small percentage of bloggers are successful.Bloggers who are successful are peoples who enjoy Blogging and has a passion to blogging.Many successful Profesional bloggers like JohnTP, Amit Agarwaal etc does blogging for their own interest and they love Blogging!Bloggers who are unsuccessful are those who does blogging only for money.They steal contents from other sites or blogs and add them to their blogs but it is a fact that this will not do any good to them but only harms!