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ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the open-for-work-and-tourism dept.

EyeMyke writes "As reported on News.com, ICANN has approved the .jobs and .travel domains, and is pending decision on .asia, .mail, .tel, and .xxx. One has to ask 'Will these new domains actually prove useful, or is ICANN just avoiding the real issues confronting them in regards to regulating domain registration?'" We've covered both of these domains before, but it would seem they are even more-approved now, or at least the process is important enough to warrant an official announcement from ICANN.

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  1. Re:At this point... by cpghost · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When the US government decides on global political issues, the whole world normally follows suit. So even if they don't legally govern the world, when the US government sets some global policy, it will be accepted by most other governments in the world. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, but not so many, if you really come to think about it.

    Therefore, the US government using the global .gov TLD is ironically not really that far from the political reality.

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