[spectre] DNvorscher or how domain business changes the internet

[Peter Luining]

For Immediate Release

DNvorscher: Peter Luining: Piet Zwart Institute(IMR)
30 may 2006

 From the beginning of the world wide web, internet domain-names were 
often seen as speculation objects that could bring big profits. With the 
dot.com bubble bursting in 2001 the market in domain-names more or less 
collapsed and the domain-squatters searched for other ways to generate 
money from their property. New strategies were used: with pop-ups, 
spyware, click-throughs, typo-domains, and sites aimed at children, 
domains were engineered to generate revenue. Fascinated with the 
changing use of domain-names Peter Luining started to investigate domain 
trading and decided to map the changing landscape of the internet. 
Luining established a set of informational diagrams, writings and open 
source tools with which the visitor can not only have an idea how the 
activities of domain-squatters change the character of the internet but 
also use the tools for further development.
platform: MS Windows (All versions), Mac OS9/ OSX, Linux (All versions) 
type: real time social system
website: http://www.dnvorscher.org


Peter Luining lives and works in Amsterdam.  From the mid-nineties he 
has developed a unique body of work fusing  minimalist aesthetics with 
the interactive vocabularies of the networks  and of software. In 2005, 
he was a Research Fellow at Media Design Research at PZI/WdKA.
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