Hoorah for the ICANN election results however there's a patent announcement just posted on the web that looks like it might prevent ICANN from issueing any more TLD's - the organisation has announced that organisations can get eTLD's (as opposed to gTLD's and ccTLD's) from it instead. The crucial news is that it says that under the technology any new TLD that ICANN might try to issue will not work. It's all at www.e2p.com, and as patents have a 20 year monopoly it looks like we'll end up with a million or more new TLD's where we can create our own little piece of technical heaven.
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Hoorah for the ICANN election results however there's a patent announcement just posted on the web that looks like it might prevent ICANN from issueing any more TLD's - the organisation has announced that organisations can get eTLD's (as opposed to gTLD's and ccTLD's) from it instead. The crucial news is that it says that under the technology any new TLD that ICANN might try to issue will not work. It's all at www.e2p.com, and as patents have a 20 year monopoly it looks like we'll end up with a million or more new TLD's where we can create our own little piece of technical heaven.