ICANN Officially Approves .jobs and .travel TLD's

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday April 9, 2005 @01:25AM 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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Re:At this point... by zootm · 2005-04-09 02:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

At this point the tld does not make any sense anymore. Sites are (were) classified in 2 big categories: - By language (.it, .de, .au, .uk, etc..) - By kind (and assumed language was english (.org, .com, .net, .edu)

The first category are countries, rather than languages, and the second were all supposed to be associated with the US at first, but have been used more and more by just anyone.