Hong Kong (.hk) domain has jumped 28 places as the most dangerous place to surf and search on the web according to a new McAfee Inc. (NYSE: MFE) report called "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited" which is released today. Hong Kong takes the mantle from Tokelau, a tiny island of 1,500 inhabitants in the South Pacific.

Bidding has started for prized new pieces of internet real estate with the launch of the .asia domain name. It is thought it could become one of the web's most desirable addresses.

dotMobi, the consortium behind the first and only Internet address created for mobile phones, today announced that The Weather Channel Interactive has become the first company to secure rights to a premium .mobi domain through participation in a unique Request for Proposal (RFP) premium name process.

A mashup of two different types of web search tools could make find the useful nuggets of information among all the grit on the Internet much easier.