New Internet URLs A New Taste of Web Domains
The biggest every change in the history of the Internet as the ICANN approved the new domain name system on 26 June 2008. We were only limited to .com .net .org .tv, and .biz (etc) for gTLDS and .uk, .de, .pk , .in , .kr , .cn etc for ccTLDs but now these TLDS can be any thing.
Here is a selection from the ICANN announcement
Presently, users have a limited range of 21 top level domains to choose from — names that we are all familiar with like .com, .org, .info.
This proposal allows applicants for new names to self-select their domain name so that choices are most appropriate for their customers or potentially the most marketable. It is expected that applicants will apply for targeted community strings such as (the existing) .travel for the travel industry and .cat for the Catalan community (as well as generic strings like .brandname or .yournamehere). There are already interested consortiums wanting to establish city-based top level domain, like .nyc (for New York City), .berlin and .paris.
“One of the most exciting prospect before us is that the expanding system is also being planned to support extensions in the languages of the world,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN’s Chairman. “This is going to be very important for the future of the Internet in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia.” The present system only supports 37 Roman characters.
Upon approval of the implementation plan, it is planned that applications for new names will be available in the second quarter of 2009.
For Example the New Possible Domains Could Take a Shape Like This
Google.Google
Lets.Go
Have.Party
Pakistan.Zindabad
My.Love
Whatis.This
I just wounder will this really benefit the end users or it is going to be a confusing story. Now the domain part (i.e .com, .net etc ) will not be only limited to English characters but it can also be used with IDNs.
This will really be entire new shape of internet. The time will decide whether it will broaden the scope of internet or actually going to confine it in the cyber space boundaries
89 queries. 0.812 seconds.
Get a Trackback link
No Comments Yet
You can be the first to comment!
Leave a comment
Short URL to this post http://8mv.net/gj
Please submit your comments only once. Sometime your comments publishing may be little delayed
Comment Policy: It is a very difficult to moderate all comments live. We beleive in freedom of expression. So we do not like to stop anyone's opinion. But to bring a little sanity in the debate it is recommended that please do not use abusive, off-topic, slang language. Please do not make racial attacks, Please carry on a civilized discussion. Comment posters are responsible for anything they post. Log out