Meeting in Singapore, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has approved, Monday, June 20, the use of new suffixes in web addresses. Industry observers believe that businesses and municipalities should be the first to take advantage of this opportunity.
GTLDs (generic top-level domain names”) number are currently about twenty, plus about 250 extensions each corresponding to one country. Once the reform starts, hundreds of new gTLDs will be introduced. Instead of ending in. Com,. Org or. Net, Internet addresses will now be able to end with the name of a company or institution.
Large groups, such as Apple, Toyota and BMW may,from January 12, 2012, launch procedures to obtain, after payment, extensions to their name.
Today, only some extensions related to countries or regions (. Fr,. Ca,. It, etc.) or generic (. Com,. Org,. Net, or. Xxx) are authorized by ICANN. They will soon be accompanied by extensions offered by companies or cities, such as. Facebook. Or google. Paris. For this, candidates must apply,between January 12 and April 12, 2012, which will be reviewed by experts.
Twenty-six years after the launch of. Com, we can already predict extensions. Tokyo. London. or apple. microsoft, which will be launched by late 2013.
What do you think about the ICANN’s changes? How would that affect internet in general and Internet marketing ?
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This is interesting. it will ease domain names issues that have long been problem to most countries. thanks for sharing.
Very good information, There will be a revolution in Extensions, i hope .co will dominate all the Extensions soon.