New domains in Internet

  • Companies, cities or organizations may register their own domain names, following the decision Monday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
  • The initiative is considered a major milestone in the four decades of history of the Internet, was announced by ICANN in a statement issued after the meeting that its board of directors held in Singapore.
  • During the meeting, a total of 13 members voted in favor of the measure, one against and two abstained.
  • This initiative will allow the addresses domains can end the company name, city, etc,instead of. Com,. Net or. Org.
  • Applications will be accepted starting in January 2012.
  • So far 22 generic domains are used and about 250 other national, like. ES.
  • ICANN has opened the Internet's addressing system to the limitless possibilities of human imagination.
  • Nobody can predict where we take this historic decision, "said Rod Beckstrom, chairman and chief executive of the organization.
  • ICANN is the organization responsible for assigning international address space of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, protocol identifiers and functions of management of the domain names and generic top level country code and administration of the root server system.



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