In this article we discuss
about new and top level domains. Let we start from 16th November in this month
ICANN (a company which run the internet domain name system) anticipated a very
imported announcement for the internet. They have announced 7 new top level
domains (TLDs) for the all over internet.
And now a question arising in your mind that what the main domain name in TLD
allowance are like (.com .net .org.) and every country have a specific domain
like .com.uk etc. but there are many limitations usually on this. The 7 new top
level domains will be worldwide and the first new TLDs to be announced since
.com .net and .org, so we can say about that this is a major announcement.
There are following 7 new top level domains are:
• .aero - Aeronautical sites
• .biz - Business sites
• .info - General
• .name - Personal Sites
• .museum - Museums only
• .pro - Professionals (Doctors, Lawyers etc.)
• .coop - Cooperatives
Granting ICANN now decided on these 7 names to try and reduce the pressure on
.com domain name, but they are unlikely will ever become wherever near as
popular as .com. ICANN has also discuss about what many people are doing
blunders when deciding on the names of Domains. And there were several proposals
including .web for general sites .kids for child safe sites and .xxx or .sex for
adult content sites. In my personnel opinion .web has much better for proposal
like .com is now.
I think the choice of TLDs is unpopular so, unfortunately as well as the
unpopular choice of TLDs, many of the 7 come with restrictions on them. .aero
will cost around $50 and may only be open to aeronautical companies. .biz is
priced at the ridiculous price of $2000 for registration and $150 per year
renewal fees. .pro will only be available to certified professionals like
doctors and lawyers and .museum will only be available to museums. There is very
little information on .coop but it will probably only be available to
cooperative businesses.
And I think tow are good and popular choice for the new TLDs are .info and .name
that are most like .com and will be open anybody with the low price. And you
will open on any sites. .name is may be confusing but anyone easily opened at a
price of $5. People will only be 3rd level domains name. For example; that if
your name was John Smith you would be able to register. But you would not own
the .smith.name part. This would be owned by the people running the .name TLD.
But it is not an good thing by the end of ICANN that they are not listen to the
public opinion on the something new in TLDs and decided to use 4 names of domain
which are unusable to most of the internet users in the world. And due to this
weakness many domains names are registered in ICANN but will anyone benefit from
it.
Many people will just have to buy their .com domain in .info as well, and most
professionals who want a domain name already have a .com.