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First new gTLDs added to the root
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/529955/first_new_gtlds_added_root/The Internet – or at least its namespace – just got bigger. Early this morning, while most of Australia was eating breakfast or getting ready for work, four new top-level domains were added to the Internet's domain name root zone.
The new TLDs are a product of the drawn out, and frequently fraught, process to create new 'generic' top-level domains, run by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The four new gTLDs all use non-Latin scripts: شبكة ("web" in Arabic), онлайн ("online" in Russian), сайт ("site"
and 游戏 ("game" in Chinese). In total, the gTLD process will result in expansion of top-level domains from 22 to up to 1400.
More domains will be added to the root progressively. "ICANN’s New gTLD Program was designed to facilitate a measured rollout of new domains so as not to disrupt the Domain Name System," ICANN said in a statement.
The new TLDs are a product of the drawn out, and frequently fraught, process to create new 'generic' top-level domains, run by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The four new gTLDs all use non-Latin scripts: شبكة ("web" in Arabic), онлайн ("online" in Russian), сайт ("site"
and 游戏 ("game" in Chinese). In total, the gTLD process will result in expansion of top-level domains from 22 to up to 1400.
More domains will be added to the root progressively. "ICANN’s New gTLD Program was designed to facilitate a measured rollout of new domains so as not to disrupt the Domain Name System," ICANN said in a statement.
Personally, I think the combination of losing the finitude of TLDs + acceptance of all of unicode (which has glyphs that look like ASCII but aren't) is going to be a phisher's paradise...