Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, explained how we “went from twenty-something” top domain names to hundreds thanks to one simple change.
“The reality is, the more there are names, the less people will actually be hogging names in order to charge a lot for them,” Chehade told HuffPost Live at Davos on Saturday. “Because if somebody took your name on dot X, you can go get another name on dot Y now.”
Chehade also said the ability to type a web address in different languages like Arabic provides people with more power to obtain unique domain names.
“These are powerful things we did,” he said. “To globalize the domain name system, to open it up, to allow for a lot of new innovation.”
“Innovation will flourish on a broader domain name system,” he added.
Below, live updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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“Could there be a piece of technology that figures out an intelligent next question to ask somebody? Yeah,” McAfee said.
“For 200 years of industrial technology, we’ve been making workers obsolete,” McAfee said.
McAfee said nobody knows if we’re reaching the point where technological developments could lead to unemployment.
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Woods said it’s normal for government entities to reach out to consulting groups, but usually the process takes a lot more time.
“The coordination has been better than I’ve ever seen it on a global scale,” Woods said.
Courtois said new devices are “enabling people to do more stuff, to do great stuff.”
Courtois also spoke about new technology being developed by Microsoft that will allow users to interact with 3D holograms.
Courtois shared how Microsoft played a role after the recent terror attacks in Paris, partnering with French law enforcement and the FBI to get police information they needed within 45 minutes of the attack’s start.
Jean-Philippe Courtois on HuffPost Live
Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, spoke about the steps his company is taking to maintain the public’s trust as data moves further into the Cloud.
Courtois said Microsoft has been focusing on several aspects: improving how they anchor the data; certification and compliance of infrastructure; and transparency.
“This is a big deal to actually report back to society what we do with data and how we deal with government requests,” Courtois said about being a transparent company.
Valerie Keller and Cheryl Grise of the EY Beacon Institute talk with HuffPost Live about how to transform your business through a better sense of purpose.
