Technology news and Jobs 
Information Technology News .love and .hate in Paris
Information Technology News .love and .hate in Paris | .love and .hate in Paris |
|
| by Davey Winder | |
| Wednesday, 25 June 2008 | |
|
Page 1 of 2   
Featured Whitepaper
5 Best Practices for Smartphone Support
That intransigence could be swept aside on Thursday when ICANN votes on whether to allow people to buy pretty much any top-level domain suffix that they want. Yes, you read that right, anything at all as long as it is not offensive or illegal one assumes. Oh, and no more than 64 characters in length. It has yet to be confirmed if the .xxx top level domain that ICANN has consistently voted against will be on the banned list or not. Apart from the obvious .love and .hate domains, it opens up the way for .intel, .linux and even .itwire should the boss fancy it. He would have to have deep pockets though as the new domains, if approved, are expected to cost anything up to AUD $50,000 a pop! Most analysts agree, therefore, that this move will be seen as a way to widen the commercial appeal of the Internet as individuals such as myself are unlikely to be able to afford the luxury of a .winder domain for example. More to the point, there is also likely to be some restrictions placed upon the registration in order to foil the plans of domain squatters. It is expected that registered trademark holders will get first dibs on domains. Personally I am not sure that ICANN needs to adopt such a measure. Surely the ridiculously high registration fee is deterrent enough? CONTINUED |
| < Next story in category | Previous story in the category > |
|---|
