ICANN relaxes domain name management next year. Sex or become a hot spot

ICANN voted to allow companies and institutions to purchase domain names ending with any name, for example, ebay's site domain name may not be limited to. com or. org, it can end with. ebay, and the New York site's domain name can also end with. NYC.

Beijing time June 27, according to foreign media reports, responsible for monitoring the site domain name of the non-profit organization "Internet domain name and address management Agency" (ICANN) in Thursday voted to relax the site

Management rules for domain names.

At a meeting in Paris, ICANN voted to allow companies and institutions to purchase domain names ending with any name, for example, ebay's site domain name could end with. com or. org, and the New York site's domain name could end with. NYC.

The new domain name management rules will take effect from 2009 and the first domain suffix will be provided to enterprises or other large organizations. Countries can maintain their existing domain names, but as the example above shows, cities can get unique URLs, such as the domain name at the end of the. London or. Chicago (Chicago).

In order to curb the domain name registration behavior, ICANN may charge a high fee for the new domain name. Some experts expect the new domain name to be worth 50,000 to 100,000 dollars, perhaps even higher. ICANN plans to give priority to trademark names to companies that register their domain names.

ICANN also voted to open a discussion on the proposal to allow other countries to use non-English identifiers in their domain names. For example, a company can use Chinese or Arabic in its Web site.

Paul Vome Paul Twomey, ICANN's chief executive, said in an interview earlier this week that the introduction of new domain name regulations would help create new space in the Internet arena. But some experts worry that the move could spark a new wave of gold. In addition to the trademark name can only be registered by those trademark owners, there are still a large number of commonly used words may cause people's desire to register, such as. sex.

Last year, ICANN refused. The xxx suffix became part of the domain name, and now with policy easing,. XXX may become a popular domain suffix. However, Tevome said ICANN would still reject inappropriate domain names based on security or ethical considerations.