ICANN will liberalise generic extensions on the internet

[Bender]

sell your .mobi domains quick, they will soon be wortless:lol:

ICANN will liberalise generic extensions on the internet from the first quarter of 2009. Internet users will be able to register nouns such as .love, .hate or .city or proper nouns as their top level domain, said ICANN president Paul Twomey in a Les Echos interview. He was speaking at the beginning of ICANN's international conference that opened in Paris on 23 June. The words chosen can not be brand names registered by another company, nor can they be too close to existing words. For example .kom or .comm. will not be allowed. Registered words will not be able to usurp the identity of a recognised community. If two people try to register the same extension, they will be given three months to settle their dispute amicably. If they do not come to an understanding, the extension will be auctioned to the higher bidder. Furthermore, internet users will be able to register addresses in various alphabets, ranging from Cyrillic to Chinese. ICANN has tested 15 languages to ensure that the new system will work with browsers from Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple. ICANN is also pushing hard for the switch to IPV6 which will enable a practically unlimited number of internet addresses, versus the current system, IPV4, whose 4.2 billion available addresses are expected to run out by 2010 or 2011

 

[FuseFX]

Uh oh?!?!

 

[jasdon11]

Yawn...

 

[ARMG]

For example .kom or .comm. will not be allowed.

Too bad...

 

[draggar]

Too bad...

The questions are, who will be the judge and how far will it go? What if Mr. Komm wants to register a TLD for his family?

A gambling facility might want .bet but it is too close to .net (and the B is right next to the N)

 

[Bender]

most of the domains are unused.
when/if they allow TLD registration, most of the TLD's will be bought and kept unused as well....
somehow, this doesn't sound like a good idea.
I think (people around) ICANN could get more $$$ by releasing 1-2 TLD's/year (see .mobi)

 

[DreamDealer]

so whats the price going to be for a tld ? and how does one apply for it ?

 

[muris]

sell your .mobi domains quick, they will soon be wortless:lol:

I don't see why .mobis are going to be affected by this so exclusively?
(why not "sell you mobi, org, net, tv, asia, eu, info, biz, mumbo, jumbo, etc...")

 

[Vision]

It has been approved...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7475986.stm

 

[GAMEFINEST]

Another way to make money, sadly alot of people will fall for it.