[gTLDs] Διευρημένη ονοματοδοσία στο Internet

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Η ICANN αποφάσισε διεύρυνση των Top Level Domains. Εν ολίγοις θα επιτρέπεται (σε όσους έχουν λεφτά και τεχνικές ανάγκες) να δημιουργήσουν δικό τους domain φερ' ειπείν το .kostas ή .athens ή .blabla, όπως είναι το .com, το .org, το .gr, κλπ.

Web regulators have voted to open up the internet's domain name system to create hundreds of new website addresses, such as ".paris" or ".Pepsi", in one of the biggest shake-ups in online history.
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Currently the world's 160 million web addresses end with one of some 250 top-level domain names: .country or .territory domains, and generic ones such as .com, .net and .org, as well as .gov and .edu.

But ICANN was under pressure to find a solution for burgeoning demand, with the stock of available addresses set to run out by 2011.

Under the new system, the web's 1.3 billion users will be able from the third quarter of 2009 to buy generic top-level domains (gTLDs) based on common words, brands or company names, cities or proper names.

Paul Twomey, ICANN's chief executive, said the regulator needed three or four months to work out the details, and would start accepting applications in the second quarter of next year.

The web body also voted to allow domain names to be lodged in languages such as Arabic or Mandarin Chinese.

In theory, an infinite number of new generic domain names could be born, but in reality applicants will need the technical ability to run an Internet registry of millions of individual domain names - and deep pockets.

Each new domain will have a substantial price tag, "in the low six-digits, US dollars", to allow the non-profit body to recover its $US20 million development costs, Mr Twomey said.
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"We expect there to be much greater variety, we expect see things such as .perfume and .wine and .silk all sorts of commodity names coming forward, which will then be taken up" by individual businesses.

The pornography industry has also sparked heated debate by angling to set up a .xxx domain for adult sites.

ICANN says it will not act as an "arbiter of law and morality," but that a dispute resolution mechanism will allow anyone to oppose a domain.
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