Icronex Technologies Private Limited keeps tabs on all the latest happenings in the virtual world. Recently, Icronex found this interesting piece of news of the internet which says that you can now book any domain with any extension you like.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an organization that controls the way web domain names work, has voted to start a naming system enabling any reputed company with ample financial resources to create its own version of .com, .org, or .gov.
This means that of you want to visit pepsi.com or reebok.com, you might be able to go to a domain named drink.pepsi or iamwhatiam.reebok. The not-for-profit groups, alternatively could reserve the .school domain and give it to every elementary school. What's more, even cities can register the domain names at .london or .newjersey. Interest groups could also pick up their own personal space by offering every music junkie a .music domain, every restaurant a site ending with .food and every law firm a .law domain name.
Ubut as with all good thing in the world, this too comes for a cost, and a good one. The price tag to get a new domain name created is $185,000. The organization has made clear that only 'established public or private organizations ' can apply, and all applicants must prove that they are technically well-equipped to keep the domain up and running.
ICANN, the Los Angeles based company has long been planning the naming expansion. For the past 10 years, the organization has been mulling over the plan but it was only until this Monday, when the group's board of directors approved the change at a board meeting in Singapore.
ICANN has said that it will start accepting the application soon and would allow companies 3 months time to apply for a new name.
The industry soothsayers believe that the initial phase of expansion might bring about 500 new site suffixes, which are called generic top-level domain names, aka gLTDs. At present, there are only 22, including the original 8 that is .com, .edu, .gov, .int, .mil, .net, .org and .arpa.
Since 2000, ICANN has added 14 new top-level domains including .biz, .info and .jobs. Some of the new names have become popular, with .com remaining the standard across various sectors. Even today, it can be very daunting to and expensive to find domain names with .com, as the most desirable ones have been long ago taken by companies, individuals and cybersquatters.
ICANN expects that by selling these new domain names, it will not only undo the naming gridlock, but will also make internet naming system more intuitive and safe. For example users might know that any website ending with .movie is a legitimate new film from a reputed studio or director, and won't lead to an Internet backwater that might be looking to snooker visitors.
“ICANN has opened the Internet’s naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today’s decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script. We hope this allows the domain name system to better serve all of mankind,” said Rod Beckstrom, ICANN's president and chief executive officer.
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