Of all people, Gobala Krishnan forgets to renew his blog’s domain name at http://www.gobalakrishnan.com/ and as it appears, the domain has expired on 14 March 08 and now redirected to Godaddy’s domain parking page.

A similar incident happened to Advertlets.com, a Malaysian own online advertising company which had its domain expired on January 3, 2008. The case attracted quite an attention as it involved thousands of publishers who sell advertising space via Advertlets.com system.

That’s according to an article published in The Star Online today. Telekom Malaysia (TM) is currently testing a 100Mbps broadband access using fibre-optic connection and the electrical wiring in our house.

The first phase of the project will be rolled out in the third quarter of next year with an initial speed of 10 Mbps. Those living in high-rise building in big cities will get to enjoy the service first. Newer housing developments would probably be able to take advantage of this service as laying fibre optic cables become part of the development plans.

Last week eBay pulled all their campaigns from Google AdWords to protest a party planned by Google to promote Google Checkout that was coincide with the eBay Live event in Boston.

The eBay’s event was overshadowed by Google planned to promote Google Checkout to eBay sellers who used PayPal.

Google said eBay has been refusing to offer Google Checkout as a payment option for sellers and buyers on eBay even after Google had been approached by power sellers to obtain access to Checkout.

When I read the story I wondered how much cash Google lost after eBay pulled their ads.

According to an article published in The Star Online recently, Malaysia’s Securities Commission (SC) is going to block access to illegal investment schemes operated by some 60 websites after it received 720 complaints and queries.

However no mention on how this will be done and who are they going to work with (MCMC & Telekom?) in order to achieve the objective of preventing access to those websites.

Whether this measure will also block those who try to bypass the restriction by surfing via anonymous proxy will remain to be seen.

The Star Online has published an interesting article about blogging and how Malaysian bloggers are making money from it via online advertising.

The story starts with some discussion about two local blog advertising companies Nuffnang.com.my and Advertlets.com.

These companies seem to be gaining ground among the local bloggers and are worth checking out if you are trying to monetize your blog and don’t mind placing permanent image ads in there.

Several well-known bloggers are also featured in the article. This includes Gareth Davies, who blogs at ShaolinTiger.com, Lillian Chan who owns 5xmom.com and JeffOoi.com.

On 20th March, I wrote about TM plan to introduce 4 Mbps broadband to TM customers in June. True to their word, the package is now rolled out and available to home users.

TM has introduced two new packages, 2 Mbps and 4 Mbps which cost RM188 and RM268 per month with modem respectively.

While those prices are not out of reach for me, at those speeds, I still find them way too expensive.

I wonder who are they trying to sell the packages to. As far as I know, I should be one of those who fit nicely into their target demographics.

In case you’ve missed the news, the Malaysian Government is considering registering local bloggers in a move which they hope will prevent the spread of negative or malicious content on the Internet.

On the 5 April 2007, The Star Online published an article about the Deputy Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor proposing bloggers using locally hosted websites may be asked to register with the authorities.

Shaziman said there are about 50,000 websites registered under the .my domain and any of these websites could provide a fertile ground for the concoction of malicious content which could harm the country’s security.

One of the major ‘selling points’ that Google uses to market GMail is its huge storage capacity. With 2.8GB of storage, there’s no need for the users to delete their emails to make space for new ones.

While Google’s GMail is busy adding 0.000001 MB each second to their 2.8GB mail storage capacity, Yahoo! Mail is beating them to the punch by offering a whopping unlimited email storage this May 2007.

Yahoo! Mail is breaking new ground with this move and I expect many competitors will follow suit to stay competitive.

Internet domain name allows sixty three characters maximum and six people last year registered the longest Internet addresses allowed for the European .eu domain.

The domains names range from the tongue-twisting name of a Welsh village to the first 63 numbers that make up the mathematical constant pi.

The domains include

thisisthelongesteuropeandomainnameallovertheworldandnowitismine.eu

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.eu

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.eu

Another French company has registered a French language phrase promising that its services would help Internet business grow

lerelaisinternet-com-favorise-la-croissance-de-votre-entreprise.eu.

Another tongue-twisting name is

llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochuchaf.eu

which is a village on the Isle of Anglesey in North Wales.

The Observer, a UK Sunday newspaper has an article up about under 30 UK entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of the web.

You might have never heard most of them except one guy named Alex Tew who hit the jackpot in 2005 with his website Million Dollar Homepage idea.

With the diminishing cost of hardware, the cost of entry is getting cheaper.
All you need is a computer, an Internet connection and an idea. The profit margin is typically higher compare to what a brick and mortar shop is getting.