ICANN to Incorporate TLDs Already In-use?

An anonymous reader asks: "I recently found an article at cnn.com about ICANN considering new top level domains. Some of the proposed TLDs have already been introduced by YOUCANN such as .xxx and have been available to the public at select registrars such as new.net for quite some time. If ICANN incorporates already existing TLDs how will this impact those who have already registered for domain on these TLDs? What implications does this have and how will the ramifications impact how businesses view and utilize the web?"

Comments

Re:What the hell?

[msblack]

Other groups have decided they want their own TLDs, so they set up their own name servers (which resolve host names into actual computer IP addresses) with the addition of databases for, e.g., *.web, *.sex, etc. This is unnofficial but technically extremely easy.

THANK YOU for emphasizing this point. Those that choose to use unapproved root servers shall suffer the consequences. If you don't like the politics of TLD assignments, get off the Internet or get used to authority asserting itself.