Auroral

It was recently announced that ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will be opening the book on tld’s but I’m really not sure that’s such a good idea.

For those that don’t know ICANN are basically the guys who regulate domain name extentions like .co.uk or .com and tld simply means top level domain.

When they open this tin of worms initially it will be a costly process so we may not see too much change straight away however, but imagine the cost to protects ones brand once the costs come down. You already have idiots running around buying up cool domain names and then trying to make their millions reselling those names. So what when theyhave unlimited possibilities.

Personally I’d like to see more restrictions on how people can get those names and more laws to make them hand em over for real reason. If they use the domain fine, but it annoys me when they buy these domains simple to put them on a drop page or use a page generator, you know those annoying search pages with only google ad’s or some other form of advertising. They contribute nothing to any society or anything on the web, they only server as an annoyance.

So in the future we could see domains ending in .msn, .england, .wales, .scotland, .ireland, or any amount of endless possibilities. Could you image E-mail addresses like jim@college.england

The thought of it is cool, but I just hope it’s done with caution I’d hate to see become harder for the small guy or gal to protect their business brand and label. It will become more costly for them protect their brands and labels for sure. .com .org. co.uk .info .net .ws .sc .ca .fr .de .es . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  and thousands more coming this way soon.

You can read more about this over at Yahoo

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