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ICANN Approves Two More Top-Level Domains

Posted by timothy on from the what's-the-domain-kenneth dept.

Cpyder writes "ICANN has decided to go forward with the implementation of two new top level domains, namely .mobi (for mobile use, sponsored by Nokia and T-Mobile) and .jobs (for job sites). The ICANN Board meetings regarding the approval are available. It is not yet known when these domains will be available for registration, as this decision merely starts the technical and business negotiations for terms under which these domains will be registered. Normally the domains should become active somewhere next year. Several other new TLDs are still up for discussion. These include .asia, .mail, .tel and .xxx. Last October, ICANN approved .travel and .post. More on these new TLDs at PCWorld and Google News."

6 of 305 comments (clear)

  1. regular expression validation, by shawn(at)fsu · · Score: 2, Informative

    Alright all you web dev's, time to go in and add two more possible TLD's for validating email address ;)

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  2. Re:How about .porn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Wouldn't that be the ".xxx" domain, mentioned in the summary?

  3. OpenNIC by Kidbro · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, I'm off topic, but any story about ICANN's nonsense is a good place to post a link to OpenNIC.

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  4. TLDs to remove by Animats · · Score: 2, Informative
    We need to get rid of some TLDs.
    • .gov Migrate to .gov.us
    • .mil Migrate to .mil.us
    • .museum Remove due to underutilization.
    • .biz Slum clearance.

    If ".biz" is kept, the registration requirements for ".com" should be tightened, so that to get into ".com", you have to have a corporation, a DUNS number, or a business license, with that data in WHOIS. Then the slimeballs can be migrated to ".biz".

  5. Re:WHY? WHY? WHY? by Wraithlyn · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've always thought a .xxx TLD would be a great idea. Then make all porn sites use it, and presto, you have a perfect and simple porn filter.

    Cuz ya know, we have to think of the children. ;P

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  6. .com, .scr, .exe, .vbs by IchBinEinPenguin · · Score: 2, Informative

    the similarity between the .com domain and the .com executable has been exploited in recent email-worms.

    At the rate TLD's are being added how long before more such problems arise?
    How long before users simply click on this stuff, assuming that .url is simple another TLD?