New Domains!

[AgnesIO]

Icann increases web domain suffixes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13835997

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A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.

Internet address names will end with almost any word and be in any language.

Icann will begin taking applications next year, with corporations and cities expected to be among the first.

"Icann has opened the internet's addressing system to the limitless possibilities of the human imagination," said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer for Icann.

"No one can predict where this historic decision will take us."

There will be several hundred new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), which could include such addresses as .google, .coke, or even .BBC.

There are currently 22 gTLDs, as well as about 250 country-level domain names such as .uk or .de.

The domains would cost a massive $185,000 (or £114,000). Companies such as amazon could have .amazon or the BBC could have .BBC - loads of possibilities.

Although I still cannot see the point :P

[Recursion]

This is just going to get stupidly complicated. Google will be rubbing their hands with the increased amount of searches they'll be getting a month!

[Firehorse]

Right, now it's time to start a company and raise £114,000 to buy .dan before someone else does... or .#* :D

[HarrySX]

I can't see this being a good idea, perhaps it will do more harm than good.

[N!ck]

Just a big money making scheme IMO.

They shouldn't have done it.

[davecool656]

dont think this is a good idea

[iJoe]

well this is going to get .confusing haha

[AgnesIO]

Guess it could be useful for websites like Amazon though and the BBC.

news.bbc
football.bbc
weather.bbc
electronics.amazon
home.amazon

etc

[Firehorse]

Think for amazon it would make it complicated. Imo having one domain and everything under it is way better. As for the BBC and other news networks it's a great idea.

[AgnesIO]

Think for amazon it would make it complicated. Imo having one domain and everything under it is way better. As for the BBC and other news networks it's a great idea.

Imagine "-:undertaker:-" if this happens..

[Recursion]

Little punctuation is allowed in domains, let alone TLDs afaik?

[roastchips]

Guess it could be useful for websites like Amazon though and the BBC.

news.bbc
football.bbc
weather.bbc
electronics.amazon
home.amazon

etc

Will be interesting if the beeb do or not, Having worked/been with the BBC for a week or so they are very conscious about the whole license fee argument and wasting it. I can see that the argument here will be the current system used by the BBC is fine and that 114k is a waste of the license fee to do this.

Hey i could be totally wrong and they will go for it but as i look at it 114k is new .bbc domain that does nothing more or save 3 local BBC Radio Jocks or 1 or 2 (depending who they are) National Jocks

[Mr-Trainor]

I don't really think this is needed. I'll just stick to sub-domains :P!

[Chippiewill]

This was announced in like 2006. Nothing came of it.

[redtom]

I doubt it will take off as much as people think. It would only really work with massive industry's and types of sites, for example .wiki