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I always like it when a new tld goes online. Today’s such a day.

.cat, the top level domain for the Catalan community has been added to the dns root somewhere yesterday.

What I like even more is that – probably by accident – their zone is transferable, using the name server dns-cat.pch.net. This means that anyone can get a list of all the domains that are registered under this top level domain. More in that in the next post.

Further reading:

• Campaign site puntcat.org
• .CAT registry, apparently in Catalan only
• ICANN application form

Currently the following domains are registered under .cat:

• assaciacio.cat
• associaci??.cat
• domini.cat
• fundacio.cat
• fundaci??.cat
• nic.cat
• puntcat.cat
• registre.cat
• tan.cat
• whois.cat
• www.cat

Some observations:

• The TLD supports Internationalised Domain Names, somewhat logical given the nature of the tld.
• assaciacio.cat seems like a typo to me, given the IDN version is associaci??.cat (But then again, I don’t speak Spanish Catalan, so who knows..)
• All the domains except whois.cat point to the registry website, which is in Catalan only.

Good move: supporting open standards, and doing it right…

And for those of you who still haven’t got a Gmail account:

1. Shame on you

2. contact me for an invite.

Look, Google. I don’t really care your job offer’s pay sucked, there are lot’s of other, just as nice (or nicer) jobs out there.

I also don’t really care if you want to monitor which search results people click on. Even if it’s by using some sneaky javascript which obfuscates this by faking the link text shown in the browser’s status bar, I have that disabled anyway. But if you do this, please don’t make your sneaky redirect script spit out a 403 Forbidden error.

Back to Yahoo! it is. I don’t really see the difference between the results anyway, and their redirect script (which they don’t try to hide) works.

One of my schoolmates bought a new phone, a Qtek S100 (also known as MDA Compact, iMate Jam, OD XDAii and some other names). It runs Windows 2003 Mobile Edition Pocket Phone Second Edition (or whatever it is called). And it absolutely rocks.
Things I like about it:

• It’s only slightly wider than my current phone (SonyEricsson T630)
• The pictures it takes are great (1.3 Megapixel)
• You can combine it with a 99