Let's start here. Follow the link and enjoy beautiful asci animation in the location field of the browser. Imagine that you've made a link to this site with Location="No" tag. Those who follow such a link will simply loose a chance to see it.

On-line co-operation is a cornerstone of any net activity. Artists are working with each other, making co-projects, exchanging links and pages, participating in each other's projects. On any artist's site you will find the presence or traces of other artists. But what can be more significant than the unification of two domains? www.entrophy.com and zuper.com. Two souls and minds came together. No image, no text, no flash or dhtml in inwindow can express it better than the new domain name. Look at it again. It's also a good example of web arithmatic: .com+.com=org :)

To register a domain with such a name is really great luck and a point of honour for the gatekeeper. Imagine how many people look for this word in search engines or simply type hell in the location field of the browser every day. Nothing is really inside, or maybe something, art of course. Nobody knows, but the location is so attractive. You can't compare with paradise.com.

Web chaos is a net artists' favourite subject, especially because it pretends to be a well organised system on the level of location. This work is about domain names. One changes another in the location field creating a perfect caricature of online society.

Very interesting interpretation. Domain. It's not a name, but code: full anonymity. As if it was generated by the server itself. Not a human being, but a digital mind, is talking to you. The main activity of this server is to copy files from other art servers and show them as they are, or spoiled. Completely useless action. Only on the level of location field does it obtain a certain meaning and resonance (look at the second picture).

Here, enjoy the opposite. One day DocomentX's on-line archive was changed from being documentation to artwork. Only because of location changing!

Pure location formalism. Domain name for Domain name.

Personal request. Don't hide this URL because: 1. The beginning location line contains the name of lab where the project was made (c3). 2. In the end it navigates you through the main window. If location is hidden you can be lost. 3. A central part of the project is the trip in the internet, which means travel from one location to another which, as you already know, can be visible only in the Location field of your browser.

(russia)

(germany)

squatted locations.

One38.org was hacked. All information was deleted. Nothing left. But the author of the server wrote: "Those of you who remembered one38.org are asked to draw a picture of as many of the pages as you like. You can use crayons, pencils, pens, markers, stencils, spraypaint. If you have never seen one38.org, I ask that you envision what you thought it could have been, and present that." Yes, nothing left to show inwindow, but location still exists and can be filled with a new content, based on it.

Even if they're talking about webdesign and not net or web art, a sophisticated web designer thinks not only about images, texts and comfortable navigation system, but about the location field as well. It needs to be decorated.

"C&A is a leading European fashion retailer." Like the millions of other companies that use the "&" sign in their names, it has a problem with its domain name (since ampersand can't be used in the server, folder or file names). They hate this location field. It kills their corporate style, damages their reputation and confuses users. What to do? Enjoy restrictions. Play with them.

Heath Bunting: "Cultural location becomes increasingly more important with geographic dislocation."

Wunderkind@etoy.com: "number 16 of the largest US online commerce corporations, eToys.com, is suing etoy.com (without the "s"), the "digital hijack" artists from the net. eToys Inc.(with the "s") asserts that they are unhappy that US kids could get confused and exposed to those bad guys from europe. family values are at stake; Xmas shopping harmony and american capital against net art."

Michael Daines (an excerpt from hamlet): "The limitations of working with browser location bars presented themselves very quickly... For example, there can be no question marks. Even though they're in anchor name territory, they look like a "get" request. Putting them in confuses browsers and servers. Also, "performing" Shakespere in this way makes stage directions difficult, not technically, but in making them seem visually plausible. I chose the "aside" directions to be shown by a character's visual moving, well, aside."

Everybody knows that .org, .com and .edu are not exactly the same. And that .gr, .ru, .de, .it are regional domains. But look at these urls. What perspective of a new sense seems to appear. Kavkaz.ru is simply a touristic guide about nice mountains, hotels and siteseeings in the area. Kavkaz.org is a tough resource about the Chechenian war. The information it contains and the vocabulary it uses are exact opposed to the Russian perception or even that of the rest of the world: goverment troops (not Chechenian) are called terrorists and bandits. Kavkaz.com is an official site of the Daghestan goverment. Note it is .com, not .gov! kavkaz.net doesn't exist.

Let's now look at the beginning of the url line; the area in between "://" and the first "." Ordinarily you will see "www". Most people think that it can only be "www". But it can be whatever. Any word, expression, sentence. It can be an open field for jokes and new meanings. And for making money as well. "www.haider.com" is a service which offers -to a person with this family name- to have the haider.com address with his or her first name instead of "www".

terrence kosick (kosick@sprint.ca): "typing navigation in the url is very sensible for an oral culture we are creating. In a way the mouse is very primitive in sence of communication. it is like pointing at objects (metaphores) instead of articulating through the (very old) advancement of phonetical communication."

We are looking for a new guide for the Location=Yes exhibition. This picture will replace the image of agatha on the right side of the Location=Yes Page. To apply for the position you should translate the following url into plain English. Include some information about yourself. http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/cgi-bin/ search?form=advanced&query=test&type= Case+insensitive+multiple+substrings+search&hits= 15&matches=&hitsprmatch=&limdom=&limpath=&limsize1= &limsize2=&limtime1=&limtime2=&f1=Count&f2=Mode&f3= Size&f4=Date&f5=Host&f6=Path&header=none&sort= none&trlen=20&doit=Save+Configuration The best (precise and simple) description will be published here. selection committee: konstantin morshnev - programmer (moko.design.ru) james allan - teleportacia copy editor olia lialina - teleportacia owner no deadline write to inform@teleportacia.org

And the winner is Hellekin O. Wolf: "Hey Lycos, I want the first 15 FTP URLs for any search I'll do in the future. Be lousy with the query string : case and the number of occurences don't matter. I want the results to appear as a raw list with no bells and whistles. Use default parameters for all the rest and save this configuration for later use. Go Get It(TM)!"

"This is spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E but it's pronounced MOZILLA". Those who don't read source code proabably know that statement made early by the developpers of Netscape. In effect, mozilla.org hosts the open source initiative of Netscape, with the most-wanted next release of Mozilla 6.0 we've been waiting for. Now, the URL can show a movement in time, as shown in our example, where former employees of Netscape made a website at their "ex-"company's URL. In the series my.company.com and my.ex-company.org we also have boo.com and postboo.com The first one is an online sportswear startup which failed because management was spending more than $1,000,000 in "public relations" (sic) everyday. The second is the site of Boo.com's former designers team.

frederic madre: "F, a concentrated transposition of the french Minitel look and feel for the web, makes a subtle yet central use of the location bar making it a mix between command line and visualisation of response time or communication transfer. The Minitel's limited and distinctive set of function keys: Envoi (return), Suite (next), Guide (help) and Sommaire (summary) plus the numeric shortcuts used to navigate inside a particular service become part of the location as one tries to make its way thru the ascii jungle that offers everything from a hotel room to a remote control sex partner, until the ultimate disappearance of all windows: F stands for 'Fin de connexion', the end of all digital beings."

amy alexander: Plagiarist, the elusive proprietor of plagiarist.org, became inspired by the ever-increasing scope of corporate takeovers. Realizing that the domain name has become a metaphor for corporation, Plagiarist set out to form the world’s largest corporation– by acquiring 27 of the world’s largest corporations into the plagiarist.org domain. The existing sites of corporations such as Microsoft, McDonald’s, and Starbucks, were given addresses within the plagiarist.org domain – i.e. microsoft.plagiarist.org, mcdonalds.plagiarist.org, starbucks.plagiarist.org, etc. The “Plagiarist Acquisitions” page listed all 27 of the acquired subdomains, with links to the corresponding websites under their new plagiarist.org addresses. If relative links were used within a given corporate website, visitors could traverse the entire website with the site’s plagiarist.org address continuing to appear in the location bar throughout. In June 1999, DuPont Company, apparently unhappy to discover search engines indexing their site under their new dupont.plagiarist.org address, threatened legal action from DuPont and the 26 other corporations against the art school where I am a faculty member. (IBM and GM subsequently contacted the school as well.) I was forced to remove the Plagiarist Acquisitions site, but I replaced it with documentation of the legal dispute (which DuPont also attempted to have me remove). Although I was forced to disable 26 of the 27 subdomain addresses, the one unofficially corporate acquisition, http://whitehouse.plagiarist.org is still functional as part of the plagiarist.org family.

Lazy about typing URLs in your Location bar? Go for shortcuts: http://www.altavista.com/ translates to http://www.av.com/ aka "av" (without the quotes) in your Location Bar. Any other shortcut ? Tell us.

We asked Rhizome people: >why you once changed from .com to .org ? Mark Tribe: We switched from Rhizome.com to Rhizome.org when we converted from a for-profit into a non-profit organization. We also changed the name of the organization from "Rhizome" to "Rhizome.org" because it's an efficient way of indicating that we are both a nonprofit and an Internet-enabled entity.

We asked Fuck.ru people: >why you changed from fuck.ru to fuckru.net ? Symerk Bogov: Franco Nero (SkeLeTroN), vladelec www.fuck.ru ne delal fuck.ru i ne chital, no nes otvetstvennost - on sdelal zapros v yandex na poisk svezhih ssilok na www.fuck.ru - i s udivleniem dlya sebya obnaruzhil, chto ego resurs vse rugaut kak stavshii beztalannim. Togda on zakril fuck.ru na karantin i skazal, chto vse hogoshie pisateli perehodyat na novii samii glavnii sait - www.podonok.ru, a vse plohie pust ubirautsa na vsyakie stranichki tipa yadurak.da-da.vsekozli.da.da.da.ru. Malokto ponyal, chto eto oznachalo vozrozhdenie - i vozvrat uvazhenia Runetom. Bolshinstvo duraleev perepugalos. Tusovatsa v gestbuke i schitat' sebya pisatelyami virazaya drug drugu vzaimnoye uvazhenie im bilo slishkom vazhno. Sredi nih okazalsa trudolubivii malchik s ambiciami, kotorii i zaregistriroval www.fuckru.net i stal prodoljat' te plohie tradicii, iz-za kotorih SkeLeTroN zakril fuck.ru. Ya obeshal etomu parnu slomat nos - i sdelau eto dlya razvlechenia, potomu chto on svoei aktivnost'u unizil 3 desyatka moih priatelei-literatorov. Tolko ya ne znau, kto on, pseudonim Pol Neuman. Etoi istorii primerno uzhe polgoda. Ya ustranilsa ot etogo resursa polnost'u, chtobi rebyatki priobreli samostoyatelnost. A potom zashel v ih gestbook i napisal im chtoby oni ne razbegalis ni v koem sluchae - potomu chto oni nam nuzhni, chtoby my mogli vsem govorit', chto est takoe nichtojnoe mesto v runete, gde mi sobrali vseh durakov, getto.

Domain Name Service (DNS) allow use of wildcards in hostnames, thus allowing virtually any domain to host a plethora of VirtualHosts. For example, if you own a domain named, hmmm... isgay.com, you can allow any host name to point to your actual website. Now let's pretend your homepage is a script that takes the hostname called as a parameter. Your URL is like : http://[arg].[arg2].[arg3].isgay.com/ As URLs are limited to 255 characters, it leaves you some space to mind something really disturbing... It's astonishing how fast news can spread online. Especially if they look like they were true while they feel like they're false.

Tout est dans l'URL / Everything is in the URL

Eryk Salvaggio : The actual web site is four frames, each frame linking to a different server. The web site name comes from the scrambling of the four servers: JODI, D2B, One38 and Kalx. Thought it may interest you.

An example of a peaceful solution. Solution for the 21st century.

"This is spelled N-E-T-S-C-A-P-E but it's pronounced MOZILLA". Those who don't read source code proabably know that statement made early by the developpers of Netscape. In effect, mozilla.org hosts the open source initiative of Netscape, with the most-wanted next release of Mozilla 6.0 we've been waiting for. Now, the URL can show a movement in time, as shown in our example, where former employees of Netscape made a website at their "ex-"company's URL. In the series my.company.com and my.ex-company.org we also have boo.com and postboo.com The first one is an online sportswear startup which failed because management was spending more than $1,000,000 in "public relations" (sic) everyday. The second is the site of Boo.com's former designers team.