Normally we don’t do news type stories here at StarterTech, but this one could impact every facet of your Internet browsing experience.
When we explained How To Pick A Domain Name, we mentioned how there werea lot of extensions to pick from. While “.com” is always the most desirable, big businesses may soon be getting their own extensions that will be unique to them.
According to the TimesOnline, these new “top level domains” will be expensive, costing anywhere from $100,000 to $500,000. This may seem insane, but don’t be surprised if you start seeing “.microsoft” and “.apple” domain names popping up.
The interesting news is that they will also be allowing “non-Latin” scripts to be used in domain names for the first time. So far they are planning to support Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Cyrillic, so this will be a massive increase to the number of domain names that can exist in the world.
As if finding a domain name wasn’t already difficult enough, now you have an endles snumber of options to boot.
Bombchell
July 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pm #
tsk tsk tsk this is what happens when all the good domain names are taken.
Sean Aune
July 20th, 2008 at 2:01 am #
So many domain names would be freed up if they would do something about all the blasted squatters.