ICANN: Hundreds of new Top Level Domains will become possible
ICANN accredited registrar Secura GmbH (www.com-domain.com) has announced today, that the company will offer all Top Level Domains, which will be accredited by ICANN according to the new policy.
ICANN: Domains like .berlin, .paris and .ibm will become possible(firmenpresse) - The Board of ICANN today approved a recommendation that could see a whole range of new names introduced to the Internet's addressing system.
"The Board accepted a recommendation from its global stakeholders that it is possible to implement many new names to the Internet, paving the way for an expansion of domain name choice and opportunity" said Dr Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN.
A final version of the implementation plan must be approved by the ICANN Board before the new process is launched. It is intended that the final version will be published in early 2009.
"The potential here is huge. It represents a whole new way for people to express themselves on the Net," said Dr Twomey. "It's a massive increase in the 'real estate' of the Internet."
Presently, users have a limited range of 21 top level domains to choose from — names that we are all familiar with like .com, .org, .info.
This proposal allows applicants for new names to self-select their domain name so that choices are most appropriate for their customers or potentially the most marketable. It is expected that applicants will apply for targeted community strings such as (the existing) .travel for the travel industry and .cat for the Catalan community (as well as generic strings like .brandname or .yournamehere). There are already interested consortiums wanting to establish city-based top level domain, like .nyc (for New York City), .berlin and .paris.
"One of the most exciting prospect before us is that the expanding system is also being planned to support extensions in the languages of the world," said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN's Chairman. "This is going to be very important for the future of the Internet in Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia." The present system only supports 37 Roman characters.
Upon approval of the implementation plan, it is planned that applications for new names will be available in the second quarter of 2009.
ICANN accredited registrar Secura GmbH (www.com-domain.com) has announced today, that the company will offer all Top Level Domains and all IDN versions, which will be accredited by ICANN according to the new policy. Secura's CEO Hans-Peter Oswald: " The new opportunities will server better the internet community. Therefore we will offer these domain names too."
Marc Mueller
http://www.domainregistry.de http://www.com-domain.com
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Secura is accredited at ICANN for all generic Top Level Domains. Secura can register all generic top level domains and all active country domains http://www.com-domains.com
When domainnamebuyers.com was still independent, it listed the ICANN Registrar Secura from Cologne in Germany among the best registrars of the world. The position of Secura is almost unique:It is accredited for all generic Top Level Domains at ICANN, and registers almost all country Top Level Domains. Secura has contracts with many registries like DENIC, AFNIC, NOMINET for this purpose. Secura sells to resellers, but also to private customers, who visit Secura's website at http://www.domainregistry.de (German) or http://www.com-domain.com (English). The basic informations are also available in other languages - from Hungarian to Chinese. Secura gives support in many different languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Ukrainian, Finnish and Belorusian. Customers can easily pay by credit card, but also by many other ways.Secura publishs a Domains Blog,in order to inform about new developments in the domain business(http://www.20six.de/secura) You may re-publish this article without any fees, but you should mention the author and the URL at the end of the article
Secura GmbH
Am Alten Posthof 4-6
D-50667 Koeln
secura(at)domainregistry.de
http://www.domainregistry.de
Tel. +49 221 2571213
Fax +49 221 9252272
ICANN accredited registrar
of Top Level Domains
You may re-publish this article without any fees, but you should mention the author and the URL at the end of the article
Secura GmbH
Am Alten Posthof 4-6
D-50667 Koeln
secura(at)domainregistry.de
http://www.domainregistry.de
Tel. +49 221 2571213
Fax +49 221 9252272
ICANN accredited registrar
of Top Level Domains
Datum: 30.06.2008 - 08:35 Uhr
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