More about Cyberspace!!

What is Cyber squatting?
Cybersquatting is the practice of registering a website that contains a trademark, and then holding it hostage from the legitimate trademark holder in the hopes of a payoff. Typo-squattering involves registering websites that contain misspelling of trademarks, such as Googel.com, with the hope that the trademark owner will also pay to own the misspell site.

Dominaing, which is technically legal, is still somewhat controversial. Domainers purchase non-trademarked domain names in the hopes of either reselling the name at a profit. Some websites have resold for millions of dollars. Other domainers “park” the domain in order to generate advertising revenue. A parked site usually reroutes users to a website that contains ads.

While a number of international laws and internal procedure discourage squatting, domaining is going to be an issue.

Domains – what are domains and how do we register them?
It is the name of Web Server name in the URL and email server name in an email address

How do you register for a domain?
Things having become easy for nowadays to get a free web space, when Google and others are giving you web space for free up to 1 GB and purchasing a unique domain name seems like a futile exercise, but we have to remember it comes along with a price.

Ideaminefield.com gives far more visibility that ideaminefield.blogspot.com
So, for obvious reasons getting a domain name for your unique web identity or commercial enterprise seems like a good investment. But how exactly do we get a unique domain and does your venture ends right there with a domain name, you have to further also purchase webspace, rates differ accordingly how many MBs to GBs you require to use.

On my next post, more on how to get your own domain name registered and the next step of buying web space for yourself.

Global Grain Scarcity: Fatima Husain

Limited means, Unlimited Wants
By: Fatima Husain

For all the vegetarians (and crop pests) out there, bad news is about to hit very hard.

There has been a constant drop in the yield of agricultural products, bringing a worldwide shortage of food grains. This means, that in a few years time, Mother Nature will be struggling to provide agricultural products to even 1/3rd of the global population.

The factors responsible for this global “food crunch” are the constant change in peoples’ diets, global warming (climate change) and the ‘hunt’ for bio-fuels.

According to Britain’s largest opposition party, the Conservative, more people in India and China were switching towards the consumption of meat, which meant that farmers were turning towards rearing livestock and abandoning producing food grains, in order to fulfill the surging demand.

The Conservative Party continued that at the same time, the growing demand for bio-fuels was adding pressure to global agricultural production, because it required more arable land.

According to a British report, the per capita consumption of meat in China has risen from 20kg in the ‘80s to 50kg today.

Global warming and the change in the earth’s climate worldwide are causing a hindrance in the production and yield of crops.
Water tables in countries all around the globe are falling, which means the world will face a water crises and therefore food shortage.

The growing demand for bio-fuels by save-the-environment zealots has lead to an increase in the demand of food grains, such as rice and wheat to replace fossil fuels, leading to a growing worldwide shortage of these edibles around the world.
This shortage is clearly showing in the grocery bills, with an ever-increasing price of cereals, chances being the circumstances might worsen.

On the other hand, it seems that India has found a solution to this threatening problem. Sorghum or jowar, as it is known in the country, is brought forward as a ‘smart crop’ that is capable of producing both food and fuel.

According to William Dar, Director-General of the Hyderabad-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), only a smart crop can help resolve the surging debate of global grains shortage.

The ICRISAT is looking forward to the Sorghum, a kind of grass used as India as fodder-plant and eaten in hilly and semi-arid areas.

The problem of food shortage, the factors leading to the crisis and the possible solutions – are still unsettled. But the fact remains; the world is on the verge of a grain shortage that will further destabilize the poor countries and increase the prices of food – the poor will become poorer and the rich, richer.
-References: आईएएनएस

( Fatima Hussain is a 2nd year media student with MAHE Manipal Dubai Campus, its great to start my blog with a guest columnist, she will be writing regularly in ideaminefield)