New top-level domains coming

[Bill Horne-11]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
announced more progress toward the issuance of Generic Top-Level Domain
name (gTLD) domains. These new top-level domains will give applicants
the chance to have a corporate trademark or community name as the _last_
item in an Internet address: for example, instead of sears.com or
fsf.org, the new gTLD program would allow addresses such as sales.sears
or emacs.fsf.

Details are at
http://www.icann.com/en/announcements/announcement-04oct09-en.htm .

My question: what will I have to update to accomodate this change?

Bill

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[Cole Tuininga]

Bill Horne wrote:

> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
> announced more progress toward the issuance of Generic Top-Level Domain
> name (gTLD) domains. These new top-level domains will give applicants
> the chance to have a corporate trademark or community name as the _last_
> item in an Internet address: for example, instead of sears.com or
> fsf.org, the new gTLD program would allow addresses such as sales.sears
> or emacs.fsf.
>
> Details are at
> http://www.icann.com/en/announcements/announcement-04oct09-en.htm .
>
> My question: what will I have to update to accomodate this change?

As far as DNS resolution, nothing.  These new TLDs will be served out
via the root nameservers, the same as .com, .net, etc.  Much like you
didn't really need to do anything when things like .info, .museum and
.travel were brought online.

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[Matthew Gillen]

On 10/15/2009 09:04 AM, Bill Horne wrote:

> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
> announced more progress toward the issuance of Generic Top-Level Domain
> name (gTLD) domains. These new top-level domains will give applicants
> the chance to have a corporate trademark or community name as the _last_
> item in an Internet address: for example, instead of sears.com or
> fsf.org, the new gTLD program would allow addresses such as sales.sears
> or emacs.fsf.
>
> Details are at
> http://www.icann.com/en/announcements/announcement-04oct09-en.htm .

Won't that just increase load on the root nameservers?  Are they planning some
expansion of the root servers to accommodate more load?

At some point ICANN's game of getting businesses to double up on domain names
(e.g. sears will have to keep their old .com) will get old...won't it?

Matt
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[Matt Shields-4]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Bill Horne <bill@...>wrote:

> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
> announced more progress toward the issuance of Generic Top-Level Domain
> name (gTLD) domains. These new top-level domains will give applicants
> the chance to have a corporate trademark or community name as the _last_
> item in an Internet address: for example, instead of sears.com or
> fsf.org, the new gTLD program would allow addresses such as sales.sears
> or emacs.fsf.
>
> Details are at
> http://www.icann.com/en/announcements/announcement-04oct09-en.htm .
>
> My question: what will I have to update to accomodate this change?
>
> Bill
>
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>  While for the senses it's a feast"
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Speaking as someone who hosts over 3 million domains on my networks.  As far
as backbone architecture for domain services, they are constantly improving
the root servers and expanding capacity.  From a domain speculators point of
view, I think this will have only a positive effect on the value of .com,
.net and .org domains.  .com's will always be the domain that everyone wants
(second .net, third .org), adding more TLDs will only make .com's worth more
as the available possible combination of words get smaller and smaller.
We've seen the same trend over the years as they have added other TLDs such
as .biz, .mobi, .info, .us, .ws, etc.  People though that the prices of
existing .com's would drop, but we've only seen their prices go higher than
expected.

For the new TLDs, if it's the same proposal that they have been talking
about for a few years, if you wanted to have your own TLD (.horne for
example), there are a lot of hoops you need to jump through.  First there is
a large application fee, second you need to prove you have the stable
infrastructure to support maintaining registrations (not just stable, but
secure as well).  Third, you need to provide documentation of your
businesses financial records proving that you are a stable company, and you
need a business plan for your TLD to prove that you can sell the new TLD.
After all, ICANN stands to make money from every domain you sell.

If you are interested in domains, there are numerous forums and trade shows
related to that whole industry.

For discussions check out www.discussnames.com

For tradeshows check out www.targetedtraffic.com

For buying/selling domains check out www.afternic.com (think ebay for
domains), or BuyDomains.com

For monetizing traffic on domains check out www.activeaudience.com (aka
domain parking)

DiscussNames.com, Afternic, BuyDomains and ActiveAudience are owned by
NameMedia based in Waltham, MA who have been dealing in the domain market
since the late 90's and they have considerable experience when it comes to
buying, selling and monetizing domains.

-matt
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[John Abreau-2]

If your DNS is properly configured, you shouldn't have to
update anything.  Your DNS server should already know
where the root nameservers are, and any new top-level
domain will be added to the root nameservers, at which
point your DNS server will be able to find them.

If your DNS server is using an alternate set of root
nameservers, then it's up to whoever provides those
alternate root nameservers to keep their servers in
sync. But there's nothing you need to do on your end.




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Subject: New top-level domains coming

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
announced more progress toward the issuance of Generic Top-Level Domain
name (gTLD) domains. These new top-level domains will give applicants
the chance to have a corporate trademark or community name as the _last_
item in an Internet address: for example, instead of sears.com or
fsf.org, the new gTLD program would allow addresses such as sales.sears
or emacs.fsf.

Details are at
http://www.icann.com/en/announcements/announcement-04oct09-en.htm .

My question: what will I have to update to accomodate this change?

Bill

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[Bill Horne-14]

Matt Shields wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Bill Horne <bill@...>wrote:
>  
>> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
>> announced more progress toward the issuance of Generic Top-Level Domain
>> name (gTLD) domains.
>
> If you are interested in domains, there are numerous forums and trade shows
> related to that whole industry.
>
> For discussions check out www.discussnames.com
>  

discussnames.com is a closed forum, only for those who pay $19.95 to
afternic. Where can I ask a general question about a domain without
signing up for afternic?

Bill

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[Matt Shields-4]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Bill Horne <ehorne@...> wrote:

> Matt Shields wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Bill Horne <
> bill@...>wrote:
> >
> >> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
> >> announced more progress toward the issuance of Generic Top-Level Domain
> >> name (gTLD) domains.
> >
> > If you are interested in domains, there are numerous forums and trade
> shows
> > related to that whole industry.
> >
> > For discussions check out www.discussnames.com
> >
>
> discussnames.com is a closed forum, only for those who pay $19.95 to
> afternic. Where can I ask a general question about a domain without
> signing up for afternic?
>
> Bill
>
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Hmm. Well that's interesting.  You used to be able to sign up for a free
Afternic account and get access to DiscussNames.com.

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