Icann increases web domain suffixes

by Oggyoi

Posted: 13 years ago 6 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

seen this on BBC news
BBC News - Icann increases web domain suffixes

A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.

Internet address names will end with almost any word and be in any language.

Icann will begin taking applications next year, with corporations and cities expected to be among the first.

"Icann has opened the internet's addressing system to the limitless possibilities of the human imagination," said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer for Icann.

"No one can predict where this historic decision will take us."

There will be several hundred new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), which could include such addresses as .google, .coke, or even .BBC.

There are currently 22 gTLDs, as well as about 250 country-level domain names such as .uk or .de

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noble 13 years ago

I read about this and it sounds interesting. Probably going to be priced VERY high though. But it would allow a company, say Nike to do a promo by just doing a new domain like

promo.nike

Cool stuff I think!
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Karan Goel 13 years ago

But will general public be allowed to register these?

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- lgibbon Banned 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Karan Goel
  
  But will general public be allowed to register these?
  
  Karan
  
  It doesn't look that way:
  
  It will cost $185,000 (£114,000) to apply for the suffixes, and companies would need to show they have a legitimate claim to the name they are buying.
  
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  Karan Goel 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by lgibbon
  
  It doesn't look that way:
  
  Seems like it would take a lot of time to
  register karan.geekzu ;-)
  
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Gaz Cooper

13 years ago

Ok i have $185,000 to register one of these new suffixes and the one I want is .sex

So now I have to prove to them I have a legitimate claim

Do you think that because I like sex A LOT will that be sufficient for me to qualify for this suffix