Why should you care?<\/p>\n
Top Level Domains are the final part of the URL for a web address (and email) – up until now, those were .com, .net, .org, .gov, .mil and country codes like .mx, .ca, .uk. Top level domains and the rules for issuing them (and revenue from registering one) were dictated by governments and largely dominated by the US Government.<\/p>\n
A generic Top Level domain allows any entity that meets a basic criteria and goes through a prioritization process to set up their own gTLD. The plan is to eventually have 1,400 of these. The new gTLD can have non-Latin characters, so many of them contain Chinese characters.<\/p>\n
More info<\/a><\/p>\n This has potential for creating chaos and causing an unending series of trademark battles. Imagine if someone created .sucks and people registered microsoft.sucks, Starbucks.sucks, etc<\/p>\n Among the first group to rollout are .democrat<\/p>\n http:\/\/JohnBoehnerIsACloset.Democrat\/<\/p>\n So far, this concept hasn’t caught much traction, but now the flood gates are open.<\/p>\n Streaming.directory ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why should you care? Top Level Domains are the final part of the URL for a web address (and email) – up until now, those were .com, .net, .org, .gov, .mil and country codes like .mx, .ca, .uk. Top level … Continue reading