The End of The .Com Era

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Web suffixes like .com, .org, .gvo and .edu may become less common in the next few years. On June 20, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it will relax the standards by which websites may be named. As of next July, top-level domain suffixes will no longer be confined to 22 three-letter options; they will be able to stretch up to 63 characters long. It will cost $185,000 to apply for a new suffix, leading critics ti accuse ICANN of corporatizing the future of the Internet. Companies, including Canon, have already announced that they will apply for custom suffixes. - Everett Rosenfeld, TIME Magazine
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  • Good find gforces.

  • I can't imagine suffixes to be that long, however this seems to be the future of the Internet.
  • I guess there will be a lot of domain names to sell for someone who deals in them. Dot com names will get devalued but not too soon.
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    • Taking the cost of 185 grand in concideration, I think mostly (if not only) the big companies will have the money to invest for it, so I am not worried about the fear of .com (and the others) getting devaluated.
      Tom
  • It's all good, we just need to go with the flow. Someday we will laugh and say "remember when everything had a .com at the end of it? That was weird..." lol
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    • This brings up ANOTHER point! Do you know ******WHY******* they have top level domains like .com? Here's a hint! There IS a VALID reason!


      GIVE UP?


      OK, When you type in a domain, the DNS servers check their local cache. If it is valid, GREAT, it is USED! Otherwise, it goes down the subnet! Eventually, the main DNS may say to itself I HAVE NO IDEA!!!!! There is NO place to GO! HEY, do YOU know the IP address for MCDONALDS(without asking DNS!)?!?!?!? Well, DNS doesn't EITHER! It sees the .COM, goes down a list, that lists network solutions servers, and it asks THEM, HEY, DO YOU know where mcdonalds is? And it responds appropriately!

      NOW, if they have mcdonalds as a TLD, everyone will have to update that setup file! So AOL, earthlink, comcast, att, etc... will have to update the file!

      This covers the info here to a degree:

      Domain Name System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      BTW THEY call the TLD a ZONE
  • Word of advice! They may NOT be able to be 63Chars!!!!!!! The OLD standard was like 21chars total, and then it was increased to like 64. Some software may STILL be restricted. REMEMBER, when you start talking about things like URLs, it may involve MILLIONS of persons. Yeah, I would have thought it unlikely, but the old file name standard, old domain name standard, old directory standard, etc... presented problems when they changed! I STILL have problems with some directory structures because the names are SO large! So 2nd level limitations ARE a real concern!

    Steve
  • Interesting comments seasoned. Surely they will have a workaround otherwise it'll be an expensive mistake for someone...?
  • I absolutely hate this idea. Now it will be impossible to remember a website name you see and for people trying to market their own will have problems too. What about similar names like marketing.com, mar.keting, m.arketing, market.ing, mark.et, mark.eting, mark.e-ting.
    Just sounds stupid and greedy to me. Just come up with more 3 letter suffixes and you'll be fine.
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    • The only ones that make sense, I THINK, are:

      mark.et(EThiopia!!!!)
      market.ing(ALL such english words, but would like be EXPENSIVE)

      Steve
  • Could have predicted, it evolves... Just like when they added cyrillic domains like "президент.рф"
  • Yeah this is really the future of the internet. There's a whole new aspect into registering domains that you need to consider now.
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    • very interesting, thnx for posting.
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    The End of The .Com Era

    http://www.any.thing Web suffixes like .com, .org, .gvo and .edu may become less common in the next few years. On June 20, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that it will relax the standards by which websites may be named. As of next July, top-level domain suffixes will no longer be confined to 22 three-letter options; they will be able to stretch up to 63 characters long. It will cost $185,000 to apply for a new suffix, leading critics ti accuse ICANN of corporatizing the future of the Internet. Companies, including Canon, have already announced that they will apply for custom suffixes. - Everett Rosenfeld, TIME Magazine