Internet body approves use of new suffixes
The regulatory body that oversees internet domain names, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to revamp the naming system for websites, allowing them to end with words like “apple” and “orange”. It will accept applications for new suffixes from January 12 next year at 5000 per domain. Today, just 22 gTLDs exist — .com, .org and .info are a few examples — plus about 250 country-level domains like .uk or .cn. After the change, several hundred new gTLDs are expected to come into existence. Al Jazeera speaks to Larry Magid,a Los Angeles-based technology journalist for more.
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“dot apple if you fancy a long and hard battle with the computer giant” – I loled
No change. $185K is much too expensive for smaller users, and makes no difference to current domain owners.
Way to help the rich get richer! FUCK.
.porn LOL
That is way too expensive. This is just another hit for small, private companies.
@TheGreatBunghole16 Are you sure you thought that through? It’s not expensive because it’s a conspiracy, the hardware is simply just expensive.
dot. Iamanidiotforpayingforthis
@MastersOfInfinity I don’t think so… I made a webserver out of a broken laptop running a DNS server called Bind9 on Ubuntu… runs like a dream, and easy as fuck to install. Its not expensive, its just them wanting more money for what they are calling their idea. Fuck the system.
$185,000 per domain? jesus christ, wow… who is going to pay that besides big corporations? here’s a domain for you, ICANN: fuck.off!
@TheGreatBunghole16 Something like this was actually once discussed in the U.S. congress…
corporate internet?
A great story, and a rug-puller for an organization (CANN) which could be getting too big for its britches. Tell all your friends and neighbors.
Kudos to Al Jazeera for yet another finely produced, smoothly playing, audially synchronized, thoroughly professional “television” news story. Your presentations get more of my viewing time, because unlike American television and radio, you forego the yammering of constant background music.
It is as if it is hoped we will not remember.
@TheGreatBunghole16 That’s right, heh, heh. All the major production companies around the world could pitch in a few bucks, and all the studios could have an event…maybe a four-hour “cokefree” time…to offset their share of that $185,000 application fee.
That’s another “apple” to which these folks have ample claim: dot-porn