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Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan
Wall Street Journal ^ | Ben Worthen

Posted on 06/27/2008 1:41:14 PM PDT by Oyarsa

Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan By Ben Worthen Word Count: 668 | Companies Featured in This Article: eBay The organization that oversees Internet addresses on Thursday approved a proposal to create an unlimited number of so-called top-level domains -- the familiar suffixes like ".com" at the end of Web addresses.

Under the plan, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will allow organizations to apply for any top-level domain. Businesses, for example, could use brand names such as ".ibm" or ".ebay" in their Web addresses. Cities could sign up for names like ".nyc" or ".berlin." It will also be possible to apply to use more general terms, such as ".news" or ".sports," to define sites associated with ...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: domains; webdomains
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1 posted on 06/27/2008 1:41:15 PM PDT by Oyarsa
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To: Oyarsa
Democrat or Liberal sites will now be listed under the domain extension ‘.scat’.
2 posted on 06/27/2008 1:47:29 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Oyarsa

Try here for a legal public link to the full article -

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2036467/posts


3 posted on 06/27/2008 1:49:14 PM PDT by HAL9000 ("No one made you run for president, girl."- Bill Clinton)
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To: Oyarsa

btt


4 posted on 06/27/2008 2:03:35 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: theDentist
Democrat or Liberal sites will now be listed under the domain extension ‘.scat’. LOL...iwas thinking '.fubar'
5 posted on 06/27/2008 2:17:38 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Election '08, the year McCain defined the word "dilemma")
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To: Oyarsa

I notice they did not mention the obvious .xxx for porn...


6 posted on 06/27/2008 2:51:09 PM PDT by TheRealDBear
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This is for 'top level' domains.  Hence only one liberal organization would own .fubar and only one porn site would be able to own .XXX

Essentially all they would be doing is moving one segment of an address to another.  http://www.IBM.com/default.html will become http://www.default.html.IBM

Of course it will cause everyone to purchase the new top level domain for their brand name which is probably what this is all about.

7 posted on 06/27/2008 2:59:28 PM PDT by HawaiianGecko
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