ICANN allows new domain extensions

Posted on 2008.06.27
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Bad or good news?

How about seeing sites on the World Wide Web with domain names like “search.goog” or “live.msft”? ICANN voted unanimously to allow new domain extensions, each of which would cost a company hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up and maintain.

The high cost will also mean that you won’t be likely to see “frederick.ding” or “yourfirstname.somethingelse” on the Web anytime soon; however, if some reputable agency registers the “.ding” top-level domain, then ordinary people may be able to purchase a second-level domain from the company, as it becomes the registrar for that extension.

I wonder how long it’s going to take before the Internet crashes.

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