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ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs

Posted by timothy on from the the-envelope-please dept.

hypnosec writes "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved and released a list of domain names as per its new global Top Level Domain plans. A total of 27 domain names have been cleared for use by ICANN, and all of them are non-English domain names. Consisting of Chinese and Arabic names, the list of domain names seems to be mostly for regional companies, prominent among which are the .Qatartelecom and .Mozaic domains."

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  1. My opinion by Richy_T · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's the beginning of the end of the current DNS system. About time too. The internet should never have tolerated such a centralized abomination

    1. Re:My opinion by MaraDNS · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I posted about this before and I will probably have to post this again: Where's this alternative to DNS everyone keeps talking about on Slashdot?

      If you don't like that the ICANN is doing, (shameless plug) it's pretty easy to download and install an open-source (BSD licensed) recursive DNS server (even on Windows), then use the program to blacklist ICANN's new domains.

      If you don't want to use my program, I am sure other DNS servers, such as Unbound and BIND (which usually comes with Linux) have similar capabilities.

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      MaraDNS is an open-source DNS server.