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Title: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
Post by: bijou on June 26, 2008, 02:05:25 PM: Quote
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:
Title: Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
Post by: Wretched Excess on June 26, 2008, 02:53:24 PM: Quote from: bijou 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:

I am already applying for pre-registration for "www.liberals-suck.the-big-one".
Title: Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
Post by: Wretched Excess on June 26, 2008, 02:56:23 PM: Quote from: BadCat on June 26, 2008, 02:55:55 PM
conservativecave.sex&booze

:rofl:

H5. :-)
Title: Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
Post by: bijou on June 26, 2008, 03:00:42 PM: Quote from: BadCat on June 26, 2008, 02:55:55 PM
conservativecave.sex&booze

Good one. :-)
Title: Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
Post by: Miss Mia on June 28, 2008, 02:28:46 PM: Quote from: BadCat on June 26, 2008, 02:55:55 PM
conservativecave.sex&booze

H5!
Title: Re: Group votes to relax Web naming rules
Post by: asdf2231 on June 29, 2008, 11:47:16 AM: Quote from: BadCat on June 26, 2008, 02:55:55 PM
conservativecave.sex&booze

Dittos on the H5!!!