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Monday 13 August 2007, 11:04 PM
What’s in a domain name?
The top-level domain arena, of course this is the part of the domain name that comes after the last dot, could soon new hundreds of new internationalised options introduced. Bringing in new domain names is all about satisfying competition from the market, but (says ICANN) it’s also about preserving the security, stability and interoperability of the Internet.
The report raises some interesting questions – like how to deal with proposals that may be considered controversial by some groups or individuals. Where will it all end I wonder? Will we see ‘dot roof’ introduced for roofing contractors? How about ‘dot slice’ for pizza parlours? Or will that see plastic surgeons done out of the top-level domain they had been hoping for?
Is this is PR disaster and political correctness battle waiting to happen do you think?
PreviousComments on this post
Sounds like it's just going add to the confusion of finding the web address you are after......or a lot of time and money for URL owners to buy up all the other TLDs.
I personally store unobvious URLs as bookmarks in my browser – so in a way navigating to the page I am after is similar to searching for a phone number on my mobile. I don’t care what someone’s number is I just care about calling them. Same applies to the internet, right?
The only good one I heard about was .xxx, which was disallowed. As previously stated, this will just increase the time you spend looking for who you want. Unless there is a strict adherence to the domain and its intended inhabitants. I rarely see URLs with .biz , .tv or .info and if I do I try .com, .co.uk etc. first.
