Forget about the traditional endings like .us, .com, .uk and .net. The domain market will be set free, which means that in the future, it will be possible for everyone to get their own domain endings registered. This has just been decided on a conference in singapore.
It's the collaboration ICANN, which is responsible for IP-adresses and Domain names worldwide, which has just made this possible.
This decision has been made after several years of stalemate, concerning the "future" of the interwebs. Seven times, the rules have been revised and after feedback from more than 1000 diffierent users, on what they would like to see changed, ICANN has now reached a final decision.
However
The companies are going to have to pay. Today there are 22 global domain-endings, and 250 national ones. But at ICANN they're expecting that big corporations will want to utilize this feature.
If, for example, Coca Cola or Google want to utilize this fine new feature, in an adress ending with their own name, www.google.google or www.coka.cola they will have to pay upwards of $175.000USD, as well as prove that they own the rights for the name they are buying.
Everyone can participate in the suggestion of names for the new domain-endings. However, all suggestions will be looked at by a special commitee, formed by IcANN.
Between the 12. January and 12. April 2012, you can make these suggestions (on ICANN's website).
Source [http://news.xin.msn.com/en/singapore/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4951654] (among others).
So, that's the official news. What do you think of this? Might get confusing when loads of companies get their website names changed. Though I suppose we'll just get re-routed from the old ones.
A bit of fun among all this serious internet business:
If you could get any domain-ending approved by ICANN, what would you choose?
Also, captcha: toodle-oo? What the hell...
It's the collaboration ICANN, which is responsible for IP-adresses and Domain names worldwide, which has just made this possible.
This decision has been made after several years of stalemate, concerning the "future" of the interwebs. Seven times, the rules have been revised and after feedback from more than 1000 diffierent users, on what they would like to see changed, ICANN has now reached a final decision.
However
The companies are going to have to pay. Today there are 22 global domain-endings, and 250 national ones. But at ICANN they're expecting that big corporations will want to utilize this feature.
If, for example, Coca Cola or Google want to utilize this fine new feature, in an adress ending with their own name, www.google.google or www.coka.cola they will have to pay upwards of $175.000USD, as well as prove that they own the rights for the name they are buying.
Everyone can participate in the suggestion of names for the new domain-endings. However, all suggestions will be looked at by a special commitee, formed by IcANN.
Between the 12. January and 12. April 2012, you can make these suggestions (on ICANN's website).
Source [http://news.xin.msn.com/en/singapore/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4951654] (among others).
So, that's the official news. What do you think of this? Might get confusing when loads of companies get their website names changed. Though I suppose we'll just get re-routed from the old ones.
A bit of fun among all this serious internet business:
If you could get any domain-ending approved by ICANN, what would you choose?
Also, captcha: toodle-oo? What the hell...
