WADND is an acronym for World Association of Domain Name Developers, an organization aimed at promoting the free enterprise development of internet domain traffic, thus increasing the value of the domain names, themselves. The mission of the WADND has been to help enhance the value of domains for a relatively new group of entrepreneurs who have referred to themselves as internet and domain name investors, according to Rick Schwartz, one of the current board members of WADND. The organization, in its mission statement, indicates it is working to promote a more efficient search process for users whilst enhancing domain name values and advertising potential.
WADND functions as an umbrella organization that is working to educate and inform advertisers, search engine companies such as Google and and other entrepreneurs about the specifics of internet traffic, site visits and the impact of using various landing pages to drive traffic to specific sites. The process of utilizing multiple landing pages across several domain names is known as "targeting traffic".
The free ownership of domain names is one of the challenges currently being undertaken by WADND, which filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against the International Corporation for the Assignment of Names and Numbers, also known as ICANN, and VeriSign, an internet domain name registry. The organization, in the suit, alleges various violations of the Sherman Act and the Cartwright Act, which are laws of the United States designed to prevent corporate monopolies. The suit, succinctly, claims ICANN and VeriSign have intentionally established a global business practice that would prevent free ownership of domains under the .com and .net Top-level domain, and that individuals who privately own such TLD's could be compelled to forfeit ownership rights to their domains. A copy of the WADND lawsuit against ICANN and VeriSign can also be found at the WADND website at http://wadnd.com/Complaint(ver4).pdf.
WADND, through an associated corporation known as TRAFFIC, holds several conventions in various cities across the USA to discuss current internet user trends, advertising trends and legal matters affecting domain owners, including the aforementioned legal suit. TRAFFIC, which stands for Targeted Redirects and Financial Fulfillment Internet Conference, most recently met in Las Vegas, Nevada; Hollywood, Florida; and New York City.
Keynote speakers for the last two conferences included billionaire publisher Steve Forbes, and Jim McCann, founder of 1800Flowers.com, according to the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. website. Late in 2008, the industry's convention will meet at an international venue for the first time, when the organization meets in Australia during November.
Among WADND's board of directors is a former Ohio television news reporter, Ron Jackson, and the former mayor of North Miami, Florida, Howard Neu. Jackson presently operates a domain-industry news channel on the internet, and Neu is a practicing trademark, contract and liability attorney practicing in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
WADND functions as an umbrella organization that is working to educate and inform advertisers, search engine companies such as Google and and other entrepreneurs about the specifics of internet traffic, site visits and the impact of using various landing pages to drive traffic to specific sites. The process of utilizing multiple landing pages across several domain names is known as "targeting traffic".
The free ownership of domain names is one of the challenges currently being undertaken by WADND, which filed a federal anti-trust lawsuit against the International Corporation for the Assignment of Names and Numbers, also known as ICANN, and VeriSign, an internet domain name registry. The organization, in the suit, alleges various violations of the Sherman Act and the Cartwright Act, which are laws of the United States designed to prevent corporate monopolies. The suit, succinctly, claims ICANN and VeriSign have intentionally established a global business practice that would prevent free ownership of domains under the .com and .net Top-level domain, and that individuals who privately own such TLD's could be compelled to forfeit ownership rights to their domains. A copy of the WADND lawsuit against ICANN and VeriSign can also be found at the WADND website at http://wadnd.com/Complaint(ver4).pdf.
WADND, through an associated corporation known as TRAFFIC, holds several conventions in various cities across the USA to discuss current internet user trends, advertising trends and legal matters affecting domain owners, including the aforementioned legal suit. TRAFFIC, which stands for Targeted Redirects and Financial Fulfillment Internet Conference, most recently met in Las Vegas, Nevada; Hollywood, Florida; and New York City.
Keynote speakers for the last two conferences included billionaire publisher Steve Forbes, and Jim McCann, founder of 1800Flowers.com, according to the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. website. Late in 2008, the industry's convention will meet at an international venue for the first time, when the organization meets in Australia during November.
Among WADND's board of directors is a former Ohio television news reporter, Ron Jackson, and the former mayor of North Miami, Florida, Howard Neu. Jackson presently operates a domain-industry news channel on the internet, and Neu is a practicing trademark, contract and liability attorney practicing in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
The Dark Doctor is the dark yet technically ninth of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by John Hurt, who appears in the seventh series finale, The Name of the Doctor and the 50th Anniversary Special,
The Day of the Doctor.
Not much is currently known about this incarnation of the Time Lord. Presumed and confirmed by various sources to be an incarnation set between the Eighth Doctor and the Ninth Doctor.
The Dark Doctor was first seen the Seventh Series finale, The Name of the Doctor and is due to be seen in the 50th Anniversary Special,
The Day of the Doctor. The BBC has released little information exactly about this incarnation. The only Doctor not to have a regeneration is Paul McGann. This "Dark" Incarnation is presumed to of regenerated in the final days of the Great Time War and is to be the one who
destroys Gallifrey and places it in a time lock. The final scene of The Name of the Doctor sees the Eleventh Incarnation of the Doctor say that he did not perform in "The Name of the Doctor" citing that the Time Lord did not want to be known as the Doctor due to the severity of the action he committed.
The Costume of the Dark Doctor is a mix between the Eighth and Ninth Doctor. Looking at various trailers and images, the character is wearing the Edwardian waistcoat of the Eighth Doctor with the leather jacket of the Ninth Doctor.
Many people are speculating that a regeneration from Paul McGann to John Hurt may occur in a prequel episode to the 50th Anniversary.
This has not been officially confirmed however if it did happen, the Eighth Doctor would get a regeneration 8 years late. Christopher Eccleston denied his involvement in the special in early 2013, so a regeneration into the Ninth Doctor seems unlikely.
Many sources have been saying that the two episodes Hurt was confirmed to star in, may not be the last. A tweet sent by Hurt congratulates Peter Capaldi on becoming the Twelfth Doctor and also says how he is looking forward to working with him.
The Day of the Doctor.
Not much is currently known about this incarnation of the Time Lord. Presumed and confirmed by various sources to be an incarnation set between the Eighth Doctor and the Ninth Doctor.
The Dark Doctor was first seen the Seventh Series finale, The Name of the Doctor and is due to be seen in the 50th Anniversary Special,
The Day of the Doctor. The BBC has released little information exactly about this incarnation. The only Doctor not to have a regeneration is Paul McGann. This "Dark" Incarnation is presumed to of regenerated in the final days of the Great Time War and is to be the one who
destroys Gallifrey and places it in a time lock. The final scene of The Name of the Doctor sees the Eleventh Incarnation of the Doctor say that he did not perform in "The Name of the Doctor" citing that the Time Lord did not want to be known as the Doctor due to the severity of the action he committed.
The Costume of the Dark Doctor is a mix between the Eighth and Ninth Doctor. Looking at various trailers and images, the character is wearing the Edwardian waistcoat of the Eighth Doctor with the leather jacket of the Ninth Doctor.
Many people are speculating that a regeneration from Paul McGann to John Hurt may occur in a prequel episode to the 50th Anniversary.
This has not been officially confirmed however if it did happen, the Eighth Doctor would get a regeneration 8 years late. Christopher Eccleston denied his involvement in the special in early 2013, so a regeneration into the Ninth Doctor seems unlikely.
Many sources have been saying that the two episodes Hurt was confirmed to star in, may not be the last. A tweet sent by Hurt congratulates Peter Capaldi on becoming the Twelfth Doctor and also says how he is looking forward to working with him.
Goldcoin (sign: G; code: GLD) is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. Inspired by and technically nearly identical to Litecoin (LTC). Goldcoin creation and transfer is based on an open source encryption protocol and is not managed by any central authority. Goldcoin is intended by its developers to improve upon Litecoin and Bitcoin.
Each Goldcoin is subdivided into 123,423,900 smaller units, defined by eight decimal places.
History
Goldcoin was released in May 2013 via an open-source client on GitHub
Forum
* Goldcoin Forum
Differences from Bitcoin
Goldcoin offers three key differences from Bitcoin, which its developers hope will make it better than Bitcoin.
* The Goldcoin network aims to process a block every 2.5 minutes, rather than Bitcoin's 10 minutes, which its developers claim allows for faster transaction confirmation. The network difficulty adjusts every 60 blocks according to hashing power available.
* Goldcoin uses scrypt in its proof-of-work algorithm: a sequential memory-hard function first conceived by Colin Percival. The original intended benefit of using scrypt was to avoid giving advantage to GPU, FPGA and ASIC miners over CPU miners, which occurs in the Bitcoin protocol. However, this turned out to be an incorrect assumption: GPU mining in Goldcoin's implementation of scrypt is currently more efficient than CPU mining. FPGA and ASIC implementations are more expensive to create for scrypt than for SHA-256, which is used in the Bitcoin protocol.
* Goldcoin network will produce 123,423,900 coins and Bitcoin network will produce 84 million coins.
Addresses
Payments in the Goldcoin network are made to addresses, which are based on digital signatures. They are strings of 33 numbers and letters which always begin with the letter E, for example, EdcFTW8ddVohkskvi9GH5LNBPdc9DtXB1f.
Reward blocks and transactions
Reward blocks:
Blocks 1 - 200 = 10,000 GLD.
Blocks 201 - 2,000 = 1,000 GLD.
Blocks 2,001 - 44,999 = 500 GLD.
Starting Block 45,000 rewards drops to 45 GLD.
Reward is then reduced each year using the following formula: 50 divided by (1.1 + 0.49*every year there after).
Total Blocks: Block Reward ends in year 2113, transaction fees still apply.
Transactions:
2.5 minute block targets up till block 45000
2 minute block targets there after
504 blocks per difficulty retarget up to block 45000
60 blocks per difficulty retarget thereafter
Total Coins: 123,423,900
Proof-of-work
Goldcoin's major distinguishing feature is that it uses scrypt for proof-of-work.
Confirmations
Transactions are recorded in the Goldcoin blockchain (a ledger held by most clients), a new block is added to the blockchain roughly every 30 seconds (whenever a small enough hash value is found for the proof-of-work scheme), a transaction is usually considered complete after 2 blocks, or 1 minute.
Development
The Goldcoin developers have released Goldcoin client version 0.7.1.1 this has a new 51% defense system unique to GoldCoin to better protect it against attacks. As of this release Goldcoin is the only coin to date using this defense system, and post block 100,000 this system provides even more protection.
Major markets
* Cryptsy Cryptocurrency exchange
* Coinex Cryptocurrency exchange
Gaming
There are several sites that let people game with Goldcoins:
*
Each Goldcoin is subdivided into 123,423,900 smaller units, defined by eight decimal places.
History
Goldcoin was released in May 2013 via an open-source client on GitHub
Forum
* Goldcoin Forum
Differences from Bitcoin
Goldcoin offers three key differences from Bitcoin, which its developers hope will make it better than Bitcoin.
* The Goldcoin network aims to process a block every 2.5 minutes, rather than Bitcoin's 10 minutes, which its developers claim allows for faster transaction confirmation. The network difficulty adjusts every 60 blocks according to hashing power available.
* Goldcoin uses scrypt in its proof-of-work algorithm: a sequential memory-hard function first conceived by Colin Percival. The original intended benefit of using scrypt was to avoid giving advantage to GPU, FPGA and ASIC miners over CPU miners, which occurs in the Bitcoin protocol. However, this turned out to be an incorrect assumption: GPU mining in Goldcoin's implementation of scrypt is currently more efficient than CPU mining. FPGA and ASIC implementations are more expensive to create for scrypt than for SHA-256, which is used in the Bitcoin protocol.
* Goldcoin network will produce 123,423,900 coins and Bitcoin network will produce 84 million coins.
Addresses
Payments in the Goldcoin network are made to addresses, which are based on digital signatures. They are strings of 33 numbers and letters which always begin with the letter E, for example, EdcFTW8ddVohkskvi9GH5LNBPdc9DtXB1f.
Reward blocks and transactions
Reward blocks:
Blocks 1 - 200 = 10,000 GLD.
Blocks 201 - 2,000 = 1,000 GLD.
Blocks 2,001 - 44,999 = 500 GLD.
Starting Block 45,000 rewards drops to 45 GLD.
Reward is then reduced each year using the following formula: 50 divided by (1.1 + 0.49*every year there after).
Total Blocks: Block Reward ends in year 2113, transaction fees still apply.
Transactions:
2.5 minute block targets up till block 45000
2 minute block targets there after
504 blocks per difficulty retarget up to block 45000
60 blocks per difficulty retarget thereafter
Total Coins: 123,423,900
Proof-of-work
Goldcoin's major distinguishing feature is that it uses scrypt for proof-of-work.
Confirmations
Transactions are recorded in the Goldcoin blockchain (a ledger held by most clients), a new block is added to the blockchain roughly every 30 seconds (whenever a small enough hash value is found for the proof-of-work scheme), a transaction is usually considered complete after 2 blocks, or 1 minute.
Development
The Goldcoin developers have released Goldcoin client version 0.7.1.1 this has a new 51% defense system unique to GoldCoin to better protect it against attacks. As of this release Goldcoin is the only coin to date using this defense system, and post block 100,000 this system provides even more protection.
Major markets
* Cryptsy Cryptocurrency exchange
* Coinex Cryptocurrency exchange
Gaming
There are several sites that let people game with Goldcoins:
*
Harry C. Bigglestone Award is given annually to the paper appearing in Fire Technology journal that best represents excellence in the communication of fire protection concepts. Accompanying this award is a USD 2,000 cash prize from the Fire Protection Research Foundation.
It is named to honour the memory of Harry C. Bigglestone, who served as a trustee of the Fire Protection Research Foundation and chair of the NFPA Committee on Central Station Signaling Systems and who was a fellow and past president of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.
Past recipients:
*2011 - Robert Jansson and Lars Borstrom
*2010 - Paul Mason, Charles Fleischmann, Chris Rogers, Alan McKinnon, Keith Unsworth, Michael Spearpoint
*2009 - Tingguang Ma, Michael S. Klassen, Stephen M. Olenick, Richard J. Roby, Jose L. Torero
*2008 - Bogdan Dlugogorski, Eric Kennedy, Ted Schaefer
*2007 - Michael S. Klassen, Jason A. Sutula, Maclain M. Holton, Richard J. Roby, Thomas Izbicki
*2006 - Brian Y. Lattimer, Uri Vandsburger, Richard J. Roby
*2005 - Tingguang Ma, Stephen M. Olenick, Michael S. Klassen, Richard J. Roby, Jose L. Torero
*2004 - Susan L. Rose-Pehrsson, Sean J. Hart, Thomas T. Street, Frederick W. Williams, Mark H. Hammond, Daniel T. Gottuk, Mark T. Wright, Jennifer T. Wong
*2003 - Scott K. Anderson, Robert G. Bill, Jr., Richard Ferron, Hsiang-Cheng Kung
*2002 - Steven D. Wolin
*2001 - James R. Lawson, William E. Mell
*2000 - James A. Milke
*1999 - Brian Y. Lattimer, Richard J. Roby, Uri Vandsburger
*1998 - James Quintiere
*1997 - Mohammed Sultan, Noah L. Ryder, Frederick Leprince, James A. Milke, Frederick W. Mowrer, Jose L. Torero
*1996 - Thomas McAvoy, James A. Milke
*1995 - Charles J. Kibert, Douglas Dierdorf
*1994 - Robert G. Bill, Jr., Hsiang-Cheng Kung
*1993 - David J. O’Connor, Gordon W. H. Silcock
*1992 - John R. Hall, Jr., Ai Sekizawa
*1991 - Frederick W. Mowrer
*1990 - Homer W. Carhart, Francis R. Faith, J. Thomas Hughes, Curtis T. Ewing
*1989 - Dingyi Huan, John Krasny, John Rockett
*1988 - Frederick W. Mowrer, Robert Brady Williamson
*1987 - Richard L. Smith
*1986 - Peter F. Johnson
*1985 - T. T. Lie, Kenneth J. Schwartz
It is named to honour the memory of Harry C. Bigglestone, who served as a trustee of the Fire Protection Research Foundation and chair of the NFPA Committee on Central Station Signaling Systems and who was a fellow and past president of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.
Past recipients:
*2011 - Robert Jansson and Lars Borstrom
*2010 - Paul Mason, Charles Fleischmann, Chris Rogers, Alan McKinnon, Keith Unsworth, Michael Spearpoint
*2009 - Tingguang Ma, Michael S. Klassen, Stephen M. Olenick, Richard J. Roby, Jose L. Torero
*2008 - Bogdan Dlugogorski, Eric Kennedy, Ted Schaefer
*2007 - Michael S. Klassen, Jason A. Sutula, Maclain M. Holton, Richard J. Roby, Thomas Izbicki
*2006 - Brian Y. Lattimer, Uri Vandsburger, Richard J. Roby
*2005 - Tingguang Ma, Stephen M. Olenick, Michael S. Klassen, Richard J. Roby, Jose L. Torero
*2004 - Susan L. Rose-Pehrsson, Sean J. Hart, Thomas T. Street, Frederick W. Williams, Mark H. Hammond, Daniel T. Gottuk, Mark T. Wright, Jennifer T. Wong
*2003 - Scott K. Anderson, Robert G. Bill, Jr., Richard Ferron, Hsiang-Cheng Kung
*2002 - Steven D. Wolin
*2001 - James R. Lawson, William E. Mell
*2000 - James A. Milke
*1999 - Brian Y. Lattimer, Richard J. Roby, Uri Vandsburger
*1998 - James Quintiere
*1997 - Mohammed Sultan, Noah L. Ryder, Frederick Leprince, James A. Milke, Frederick W. Mowrer, Jose L. Torero
*1996 - Thomas McAvoy, James A. Milke
*1995 - Charles J. Kibert, Douglas Dierdorf
*1994 - Robert G. Bill, Jr., Hsiang-Cheng Kung
*1993 - David J. O’Connor, Gordon W. H. Silcock
*1992 - John R. Hall, Jr., Ai Sekizawa
*1991 - Frederick W. Mowrer
*1990 - Homer W. Carhart, Francis R. Faith, J. Thomas Hughes, Curtis T. Ewing
*1989 - Dingyi Huan, John Krasny, John Rockett
*1988 - Frederick W. Mowrer, Robert Brady Williamson
*1987 - Richard L. Smith
*1986 - Peter F. Johnson
*1985 - T. T. Lie, Kenneth J. Schwartz