Online-ing in the future can be more fun and creative since January 12, 2012 to April 12, 2012. OK, the lines of the numbers are symbolic -- at least if you regard them with the 2012 Judgment Day -- but technically, ICANN has decided that humankind is creative and as such it gives the people, of all nations and languages -- and script, to end their special webpage with names other than the popular .com, .org, .net and the like.
ICANN Board of Directors has approved the plan to ramp the domain names. The vote was 12 approving, 2 abstaining and only 1 opposed. Such majority reflects the board faith that this "biggest changes ever to the Internet's Domain Name System" will benefit humankind. With the approval, now the generic to-level domain (gTDLs) are increasing. Currently, including the familiar .com, .info, .net, .org and the like, there are only 22 available domain names.Reactions following the decision were various though. Stephen Shankland of CNet News noted that the spreading can cause trademark headache. Many corporations would struggles for the new, extended domain names. IBM, for example, want to secure IBM.think. But surely that'll conflict with Lenovo, who owns a line of product called -- correct me if I'm wrong -- ThinkPad.
Larry Dignan of ZDNet noted that the domain names can end in almost anything ranging from a city, to term like .eco or .green and natives scripts from around the world. Global companies also want to make sure that all of the related terms are covered -- and that'll definitely cause more struggles between corporations. For example, Pepsi want to secure the domain names in specific scripts. This will conflict with Coca Cola who wants to cover all countries on the planet.***
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