Recently i read an interesting article regarding city based domain name !!! Yes, its city based domain extensions. ICANN would be allowing new top-level domain names registered ending in whatever the registrants want to have…. Good new but it’s just on paper as of now !!!
We all know that “On web we have domain extension .de for Germany and .fr is for France, similarly we can have city specific generic domain names like .nyc to be for New York City” etc………. hence if such gTLD gets live on web there would be an revolution in domain name industry and would surely help local business owners. We can just imagine the benefit web business owners can have if such city specific domains extension gets into reality, If would are planning to offer local service then such domain extension would be a great help.
Connecting.nyc Inc. is a not-for profit organization founded to acquire and develop the .NYC TLD. It ask web users to sign a petition and this way to support the campaign. New York City based entity may win a battle decide to make NYC the world’s first city that has its own top-level domain. This would be .NYC web address. It should be opened for registration for U.S. national brands, New York businesses.
But unfortunately NewYork City is still exploring options for .nyc domain name. and ICCAN have not still approved their request.
We can expect many more such new TLDs emerging in few years which would be more targetted towards relevant industry / business, geographical location.
nTLDs: (new Top Level Domains)
ICANN is trying to offer new TLD namespace with virtually anything availalble on earth. You can refer following list though not a complete or 100% accurate, many applicants have already identified themselves as a nTLD
* .RADIO
* .ECO (Ecological)
* .GREEN (Ecological)
* .MOVIE (Movie/Film Industry)
* .FAM (Family)
* .MUSIC (Music)
* .HEALTH (dot health)
* .SPORT (dot Sport)
* .INDIGI (for indigenous peoples)
* .NYC (New York City)
* .BERLIN (Berlin Germany)
* .PARIS (Paris France)
* .BZH (Brittany, a region in France)
* .ENG (England, a kingdom in the U.K.)
* .GAL (Galicia, a region in Spain)
* .MED (Mediterranean)
* .LLI (Leonese Language and Leonese Culture)
* .GAY
* .WEB
* .POST
* .MAIL (for emails and to control spam)
* .GEO (generic geographical locations)
* .XXX (Adult Entertainment)
* .BCN (Barcelona)
* .LAT (Latin America)
Well, you can think of this list to grow continuously. Additionally, there are clearly some nTLDs applications essentially competing for the same theme or market.
Posted under Technology Updates
This post was written by on October 11, 2009
