27 non-English domain name suffixes cleared
NEW YORK (AP) — The agency in charge of Internet addresses says it's given preliminary approval for 27 new suffixes — all in Chinese, Arabic and other languages besides English.
They are the first approved out of nearly 2,000 bids submitted last year. The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers previously said it was reviewing the non-English bids first. ICANN expects additional approvals in the coming weeks.
Winning bidders must now work out contractual and other details. The new suffixes could be available for use as early as the middle of the year.
Proponents of the new suffixes hope the expansion will lead to online neighborhoods of businesses and groups around specific geographic areas or industries and help non-English speakers avoid typing English domain names like ".com."
They are the first approved out of nearly 2,000 bids submitted last year. The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers previously said it was reviewing the non-English bids first. ICANN expects additional approvals in the coming weeks.
Winning bidders must now work out contractual and other details. The new suffixes could be available for use as early as the middle of the year.
Proponents of the new suffixes hope the expansion will lead to online neighborhoods of businesses and groups around specific geographic areas or industries and help non-English speakers avoid typing English domain names like ".com."
I can't wait for arabia.hshshshchchshchshch
comment I found:
Nothing changes, the US Gov created the net and still controls it. Just look at the BS US Judges are doing now in domain cases, letting people without rights to TMâs sue anyone they want for domains the people donât even own. Itâs a JOKE. When the net went âpublicâ it was a CIA move, network solutions was 100% controlled by CIA, the parent company that raised BILLIONS was whom. SAIC or CIAâs backwards. Who was on the board of SAIC the company that benefited from netsols public outing. A bunch of CIA spooks. The US gov created the net decades ago with aarpanet and it will never let go of it. If you did deep enough you see they have in place on the all the key orgâs US gov people to control whatever happens.
and a fascinating article from Vanity Fair concerning SAIC:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/03/spyagency200703?printable=true¤tPage=all
The almighty Hand controls all suffixes!