June 27, 2008

What’s in a name?

The future of domain names is going to be very different following a meeting in Paris by the people who oversee the domain name industry, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICCAN) have met and decided to relax the rules regarding domain names.

It all started with .com, the web addresses ending in a combination which represented the country from where the business is based. But as more and more organisations got themselves a piece of the web the domain names expanded, leaving very few top level domains available.

But following the meeting it would seem that anything goes and for those involved in the industry it could be a potential gold rush, with businesses, organisations and individuals all claiming their own piece of the net.

Source [CNN]