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Sunday
- July 16, 2000
New Web Domains on the Way
According to ABCNews.com:
"The dominance of the dot-coms
is over. By the end of this year, addresses on the World
Wide Web will use new suffixes such as .shop, .tel and
.news.
The first such change in over
10 years was approved today by a meeting in Japan of the
Internet's managing authority on such suffixes, called
top-level domains (TLDs). The new suffixes will be added
to existing domain names such as .com for companies, .org
for non-profit organizations and .edu for educational bodies.
'It's clear this is going to
happen, and things are moving towards that right now,'
Esther Dyson, chairwoman of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), told reporters.
ICANN will begin taking applications
from companies that plan to sell and register the new top-level
domains, called registrars. Those companies will submit
proposals for the new TLDs and explain how they will screen
and register those seeking to own Web sites with the new
suffixes. Applications will start in August, and by the
end of the year the registrars and their new "dot.somethings" will
be chosen..."
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