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Group votes to relax Web naming rules
« on: June 26, 2008, 02:05:25 PM »
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CNN) -- A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions -- potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.



 At a meeting in Paris Thursday, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- also known by its acronym ICANN -- unanimously approved key proposals to allow domain names using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters.

The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able to use easier-to-remember suffixes such as .hotel, .fishing or .sex.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/26/domain.names/index.html

So will Rebel and WE change the name of CC?  :evillaugh:



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Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2008, 02:53:24 PM »
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CNN) -- A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions -- potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.



 At a meeting in Paris Thursday, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- also known by its acronym ICANN -- unanimously approved key proposals to allow domain names using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters.

The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able to use easier-to-remember suffixes such as .hotel, .fishing or .sex.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/26/domain.names/index.html

So will Rebel and WE change the name of CC?  :evillaugh:

I am already applying for pre-registration for "www.liberals-suck.the-big-one".


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Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2008, 02:56:23 PM »

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Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2008, 03:00:42 PM »
conservativecave.sex&booze

Good one.  :-)



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Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2008, 02:28:46 PM »
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Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2008, 11:47:16 AM »
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