The Domain Revolution

[lick]

Move over .com, .uk and .net - and welcome .whateveryoulike. From next year, the geography of the internet is set to expand significantly.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international body that oversees the structure of the internet, will liberalise the market for domain name extensions - the .com or .uk part of a web address.

This means that anyone, in theory, can apply to operate an extension.

Toyota, for example, could register europe.toyota and usa.toyota as well as set up sites for individual brands (highlander.toyota) and use targeted domains for different markets such as customers and suppliers (suppliers.toyota, dealers.toyota, buying.toyota).

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Bus...For_Businesses


i could see habbo doing this lol usa.habbo uk.habbo

Make some $$$ if you get a good one ol:

[Jahova]

Sounds good. Could make a few £££ =P

[Chippiewill]

This will suck.... so much

Edit: I am going for .www

[Tomm]

Somehow I think it will be significantly difficult for a individual to successfully obtain their own domain extention. First off, its obviously going to cost a fair bit of money to actually obtain one and they are hardly going to start dishing out domain extensions to anyone without a stringent application process. Also you'd have to ensure you have a DNS server that can handle the dns requests which could come in quite large numbers.

This will suck.... so much

Edit: I am going for .www

[N!ck]

I think it's a bad idea personally as I think it's just a scheme for some people to make a hell of a lot of money rather than for the better of the internet.

A random person couldn't just set up the TLD ".forum" or something. They would have to have a completely valid reason and plan for doing so. At current, the only way to get a new TLD set up is to have a new country and then the TLD is in relation to that country.

I don't know how it will work with DNS either. Whether the registrar will have to run their own DNS servers for it or the new TLDs will be handled by the current root servers I don't know. If the client did have to run their own DNS then they would have to have their servers added to the current root servers (http://www.root-servers.org/) which I don't think is likely.

[The Professor]

A random person couldn't just set up the TLD ".forum" or something. They would have to have a completely valid reason and plan for doing so. At current, the only way to get a new TLD set up is to have a new country and then the TLD is in relation to that country.

That's what gets me about TLDs; the internet is a global entity without any rigidly defined borders yet the structure of domains still revolves around a suffix based on a country. That just gets confusing once people twig on that trying to link yourself to a country on the internet doesn't make sense and start using the TLD that sounds best rather than the one linked to their country. For example Tip.It, the Runescape help site, has nothing to do with Italy at all. I remember saying "why the hell would I want a site in italian?!" when I was first told about it.

A scheme like this would get rid of the broken system we have now and move us towards more meaningful TLDs, I'm all for it as long as there is some form of application process. Who would you apply to anyway?

[Recursion]

This is rediculous, it's going to overcomplicate things, stick with the country TLDs, Govt., Orgs etc.

[Berch]

This is rediculous, it's going to overcomplicate things, stick with the country TLDs, Govt., Orgs etc.

Yeah must agree with you their going to make everything more confusing with everyone using whatever they wish.