“Web regulators Thursday voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in Internet history, a French web official said.
To prevent cybersquatters, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers also adopted a motion designed to “limit the abusive registration of new domain names.”
I think everyone saw this coming, especially after the plan to move to IPv6, when we realized we’d soon be running out of IP addresses. I wonder though if this will make it harder to guess a company/person’s URL without the near-standard .com/.net/.org? And what will be the standard for a site’s home page, now that their brand will be the prefix? drink.pepsi? buy.pepsi? oh.wait.pepsi.is.gross?
via The Age
