.uk (W3)

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Eine Extrawurst hat man für die Briten gebraten, die in der ISO-Liste unter GB firmieren, im Netz aber unter .uk. Und natürlich hat man zugunsten der Europäischen Union geschummelt. Die ist nämlich kein ISO-3166-1-Land, im Gegensatz zu den Nicht-EU-Mitgliedern Guernsey und Jersey.
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Typosquatters cashing in on .uk domains

Typosquatters are cashing in by registering new ".uk" domains which look similar to those used by existing high-traffic ".co.uk" websites. By simply registering a ".uk" domain that ends in "co", the squatters have obtained dangerously deceptive domains such as "paypalco.uk" and "americanexpressco.uk" in an attempt to steal traffic from the real domains, "paypal.co.uk" and "americanexpress.co.uk".
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First introduced in 1985, the ".uk" country code top-level domain (ccTLD) has only recently allowed ordinary consumers to register domains directly under ".uk" (such as "stephenfry.uk"). Before 10 June 2014, practically all UK domains had to be registered under second-level domains, which categorised the activity of the site. By far the most popular of these second-level domains is ".co.uk", which is intended for commercial and general use.
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To limit the most obvious potential for domain squatting, existing owners of ".co.uk" domains were given automatic rights to the corresponding ".uk" domain (for example "nationalrail.uk") on 10 June 2014, providing there was no other equivalent ".org.uk", ".me.uk", ".net.uk", ".ltd.uk" and ".plc.uk" domain in existence. The reservation period runs for a period of five years, during which time no other party can register the domain, even if the rightful party chooses not to.
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Posted by Paul Mutton on 2nd December, 2014 in Around the Net, Security

Chatfield, Tom
Netymology

Composed of 100 bite-sized entries of 400 to 600 words each, Netymology weaves together stories, etymologies and analyses around digital culture’s transformation, and creation, of words.

Tom Chatfield presents a kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking tour through the buried roots of some of the digital age’s most common terms: from the "@" and "Apple symbols", to "HTML" and "Trojan horses", to the twisted histories of new forms of slang, memes, text messages and gaming terms.

There’s also discussion of the trends behind digital words, and of the ways language itself is being shaped by new forces – and revelations about how these forces are, in turn, reshaping us.

Crystal, David (Autor)
Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide

Kurzbeschreibung
The Internet is now an integral part of contemporary life, and linguists are increasingly studying its influence on language. In this student-friendly guidebook, leading language authority Professor David Crystal follows on from his landmark bestseller Language and the Internet and presents the area as a new field: Internet linguistics. In his engaging trademark style, Crystal addresses the online linguistic issues that affect us on a daily basis, incorporating real-life examples drawn from his own studies and personal involvement with Internet companies. He provides new linguistic analyses of Twitter, Internet security, and online advertising, explores the evolving multilingual character of the Internet, and offers illuminating observations about a wide range of online behaviour, from spam to exclamation marks. Including many activities and suggestions for further research, this is the essential introduction to a critical new field for students of all levels of English language, linguistics and new media.

Crystal, David
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8

Kurzbeschreibung
This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand," writes a commentator in the UK Guardian. "It masks dyslexia, poor spelling, and mental laziness." Exam answers using textese and reports that examiners find them acceptable have led to headlines in the tabloids and leaders in the qualities. Do young people text as much as people think? Do adults? Does texting spell the end of literacy? Is there a panic in the media? David Crystal looks at the evidence. He investigates how texting began and who uses it, why and what for. He shows how to interpret its mix of pictograms, logograms, abbreviations, symbols, and wordplay, and how it works in different languages. He explores the ways similar devices have been used in different eras and discovers that the texting system of conveying sounds and meaning goes back a long way, all the way in fact to the origins of writing - and he concludes that far from hindering literacy, texting may turn out to help it.

Langenscheidt - Wb
Herda, Susanne / Fischer, Jürgen
Internet Wörterbuch - Englisch-Deutsch

Kurzbeschreibung
Langenscheidts Internet-Wörterbuch. Englisch-Deutsch. Völlige Neuentwicklung. Mit über 700 englischen Stichwörtern aus der Welt des Internets, darunter die wichtigsten technischen Begriffe und die typischen Kunstwörter wie "delurk", "spamming" oder "nerd". Nützlich fürs Chatten ist auch die Auflistung von über 60 "Emoticons", kurzen Zeichenkombinationen, mit denen Internet-Freaks ihre Gefühle ausdrücken. Zu jedem Stichwort gibt es eine ausführliche Erklärung und, so vorhanden, eine deutsche Übersetzung.