Thursday, July 3, 2008

ICANN Opens Up Domains

Posted by Gina Crosby in Industry News: Trends

This is huge, huge step forward for the group that oversees the development of the internet. The board of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers–ICANN–unanimously approved some proposals that could open up domains past the standard .com, .org, .info, etc. This could open a lot of new websites in the future that are tailored to industry-specific websites, maybe like www.mymanolos.shop or www.arthurbryant.kc, for example. They look a little strange now, but I bet they grow quickly! Read the whole article here.