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ICANN OKs New Top-Level Domains
Does anyone have any favorite, printable, domains they'd like to see?
A radical shake-up of the Internet's domain name system has been approved, allowing for an almost infinite number of new domain suffixes -- but only for those with plenty of cash.
The nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided at a meeting in Singapore Monday that it will open an application window for proposing new domain suffixes, which could be almost any word in any language, including those that use different scripts, like Arabic or Japanese.
The catch is that the application for a new suffix, which is a rather involved document, must be accompanied by a $185,000 application fee, which ICANN will keep regardless of the outcome of the application.
The nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) decided at a meeting in Singapore Monday that it will open an application window for proposing new domain suffixes, which could be almost any word in any language, including those that use different scripts, like Arabic or Japanese.
The catch is that the application for a new suffix, which is a rather involved document, must be accompanied by a $185,000 application fee, which ICANN will keep regardless of the outcome of the application.