Twitter Facing Login Problems? Thursday, January 13, 2011, 11:22:00 AM Twitter.com hasn’t had the best time lately; after a spell of shut downs last year, an investigation from the Office of Fair Trading and a request from the US Government to release the details of anyone associated with Wikileaks.org – Twitter needs a break. Unfortunately for them, they’re not getting one, they”re getting a whole load of complaints from users who can’t log in.

Top Level Domain Holdings plans to raise about £3m via a placing at 6.5p a share to take advantage of the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains, the board of the company has announced.

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Following on from .MUSIC’s suggestion it get special status for its likely gTLD application when ICANN begins taking new gTLD applications in the near future, Domain Name Wire has a report that suggests those behind the .BERLIN initiative are after similar status. Domain Name Wire notes dotBERLIN GmbH “has submitted a comment  to ICANN asking that companies that have been involved in the new top level domain name process for a long time be given an extra point on their application: Many of the recently emerged new gTLD applicants may take advantage of the immense delay the new gTLD program has been facing since its start in 2005

The recent ICANN meeting held in Brussels was judged a success by Minds + Machines’ Antony Van Couvering, whose company is likely to be behind applications for several new generic Top Level Domains when ICANN eventually begins taking applications. Van Couvering writes that the recent meeting “may become known as the meeting where the dust finally began to settle. Long-standing issues were settled, compromises were reached, no-one complained too much about the latest version of the Applicant Guidebook, and the Board stood by its project plan dates, even scheduling a Board retreat to solve remaining issues

With the by-line that “delay is a fact of life at ICANN” and that “dates are subject to change”, Minds + Machines have published a new timeline for the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains. The timeline follows a post-Nairobi webinar from ICANN board member Bruce Tonkin

Anyone that pays any attention to the search engine optimization world knows that real time search is a hot topic and Google is getting VERY good at picking up on trends and enabling their scrolling news section in the middle of their normal search results. The part that many people miss is that social media streams are one of the ways Google picks up on trends and links that should be included