ICANN Haz .ChzBrgr?
You think Internet domain namespace is an unwieldy, unnavigable mess now? Just wait. ICANN, the Internet’s body for domain-name management–and I use that term loosely–today approved a domain-name system that permits an unlimited number of top-level domains.
Under the new system, anyone can register as a TLD any combination of letters and numbers they like, their range limited only by the breadth of their own imaginations and the $100,000 and $500,000 fee ICANN plans to charge. So, ICANN’s domain, for example, could become MassiveTechnical.Problems, Total.Chaos, Utter.Confusion or Cluster.F … well, you see my point.
“We are opening up a new world, and I think this cannot be underestimated,” said ICANN member Roberto Gaetano. And that’s an understatement if I ever heard one. Because, when the adult-entertainment industry catches wind of this … well, let’s just hope .xxx will be the least of our worries. How many slang terms for sexual anatomy can you think of?
Comments
So this is how the web ends, not with a bang, but with a .bang.
good.grief!
Posted by Bruce Evans at June 26th, 2008 at 3:54 pmAnd I thought having an international body take things over from us evil money grubbing Americans was supposed to be a GOOD thing.
Fooled.Again
Posted by Mac Beach at June 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am