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Microcap & Penny Stocks : ZuluGroup.com (ZULU/ESVS)-Ecommerce & Internet Advertising -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jon Tara who wrote (871)	2/7/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 2003

Here is an expanded version of my last post. Sorry, the 15-minute window closed: The domain servers are the servers that handle translation of the domain name to the IP address. Domain servers are often run by third parties. A domain server can handle 1 or a dozen or a hundred, or a thousand domains. Domain servers don't have to be run on dedicated computers. The computer could also happen to be running a web server. So, if you point your web browser to the IP address of a domain server, you might get a web server, but it's likely to be somebody else's web server, unless the company runs their own domain server. BTW, it is desirable NOT to run your own domain server, or if you do, to still have multiple primary servers run by somebody else. It appears that the server that provides DNS for for ZULU happens to run the web server for webring.com on the same machine. newdream.net appears to be some sort of loose collective. I'm not sure what the connection is with webring.com, but I'd guess that webring.com is housing newdream.net's server or vice-versa. webring.com apperas to have started as a non-commercial venture (they started as webring.org) that has apparently gone commercial. (IPO coming? :) ) Web Rings are a mechanism for navigation between sites with some common theme - most typically personal home pages, but not always. I'm not sure how they plan on making money, though, since there is no cost to join a web ring, and there is no advertising involved. Here's another clue. I see that one of the "members" of newdream.net is webring.com founder Sage Weil. And their history includes newdream.net: "A Brief History Operated by Starseed, Inc. since August, 1997, WebRing was first created in June, 1995, by Sage Weil and Troy Griffith, launched in March, 1996, and moved onto its own server in September, 1996. It drew its initial inspiration from a similar structure called EUROPa (Expanding Unidirectional Ring of Pages). Michael at newdream.net helped with initial graphic design. In August, 1995 Jerry Hierr suggested a centralized CGI program to run the system. The first new ring to join up was the ESLoop. By the beginning of 1997, there were over 1,000 rings on the system, and by May of that year 10,000. By April, 1998, there were over 40,000 rings on WebRing. WebRing has been extensively covered by the news media, with stories appearing in: CNN-TV, CNET-TV, TAIPAN, Business Week, Investors' Business Daily, InfoWorld, WebWeek and Public Radio. For more, see WebRing in the News." You can see how they work at the bottom my one of my home pages: http: //live.net /sandiego/ which you can see is a member of the San Diego Waterfront Web Ring.