Internet overseer ICANN plans to reform the top level domain (TLD) naming system so anyone can set up a new registry, but it seems web plebs will have to make do with boring old .com and friends. According to a report, the price for a bespoke TLD will be announced this Friday at about $200,000.The price tag will help ICANN recoup the $20m cost of implementing a more relaxed naming scheme, AP reports. It'll also discourage all but the wealthiest individuals from applying for so-called vanity TLDs. Major corporations and public bodies are expected to spponsor most of the new registries. A campaign for a .london TLD is being led by a German group that wants to see all major cities with their own TLD.
We should start a fund to buy .neowin
True, but domain squatting and massive internet growth has robbed the internet of countless good domain names -- the only ones left are obscure names, "web 2.0 names" like Flickr that aren't really words, etc. The days of .com are numbered, IMO, because consumers are going to begin wanting novel names that let companies be more creative -- think of del.icio.us (or whatever it is :p)... also because of the shrinking availabiity of .com names and the cost of purchasing the .com domain you really want.
When I originally looked into setting up my website the names I originally was going to choose were already taken. It took me a while to figure out a related name that wasn't taken.
For giggles it would of been a kick to register .n00b, .god, hell even .xtreme2damax.......
There goes my plan, now only a pipe dream.......
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