ICANN has been releasing new top level domain names for the last five years. So why are they treated with such distrust from web and mail apps alike?
Case in point, last summer, several registrants of .coop domains got in touch saying that all of a sudden their emails were being rejected as spam. It turns out that the latest update for their spam filter included a rule stating that all email addresses ending in .coop were invalid and should therefore be classed as spam and not released to the net.

Tim O’Reilly states that the C# book market is up 78%, ASP.NET up 61% and Javascript 171% thanks to AJAX. SQL Server books have also boosted sales recently thanks to the release of Yukon. While this is undeniably good and indicates that development budgets are stretching a bit further these days, I wonder exactly how sales still compare to the heyday of mid 2000. For those unaware of it, this is when