Thousands of new international top-level domain names have been challenged to value or shrink

According to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> media reports, the traditional era of the popular international top-level domain name only". com ",". Net "these two, However, ICANN, the international top-class domain management agency, is implementing a "Domain name leap forward" and plans to add more than 1000 top-level domain names. The radical expansion is being criticized by the Internet industry for pointing out that a large number of new domain names will disrupt the normal functioning of the Internet.

Over the years, ICANN has been seeking new international top-level domain names. Now the program is entering a key node. Starting in Sunday, Internet industry officials held a meeting in Durban, South Africa. It is said that by the summer of this year, top domain names such as "buy", "Casino" (Casino), ". Gay" (gay) will be online at a rate of 20 a week, with a total of thousands.

The top-tier domain expansion plan, which has attracted some investors ' interest, would mean getting a billions of-dollar registered annual fee income if the new domain name were to be run.

At the same time, however, some organizations have also issued criticism that the international top-level domain name expansion is too fast and not deliberate, which will bring serious impact on the Internet infrastructure.

The industry's most feared phenomenon is the so-called "domain name conflict", such as under the different top-level domain names (such as ". Corp", ". Home"), will appear the same next level domain name, this problem especially occurs in the enterprise internal computer system. There may be a system failure, the mail was blocked and other issues, but also caused confidential information stolen.

Danny-mcpherson, chief security officer at VeriSign, a veteran U.S. domain registrar, said the international Domain name expansion plan would affect millions of companies, "which is definitely problematic." ”

The above and other security experts point out that ICANN has not done enough research on the possible impact and distress on the scale of top-level domain names, nor has it developed a solution to the problem. Of particular concern is that top-level domain names such as ". Med" and ". Center" will have a bearing on the normal functioning of medical institutions and emergency response agencies.

The concern is not just the cyber-security industry, the "National Advertising Association", which represents American companies, and PayPal, an online payment provider, in a statement in March that the expansion of top-level domain names would be used by bad performers and could also trigger intermittent Internet system failures.

But proponents of the domain expansion plan argue that some of these concerns are exaggerated, that the problems that may arise from domain name increases are already well understood and that problems can be solved. Jeffrey-moss, ICANN's chief security officer, said the new top-level domain would be released gradually every month and would not hit the network all at once, so there would be plenty of time to fix it if there were problems.

"[Domain name expansion] is not a crazy-running train with no reliance on it, we don't do anything that undermines internet security and stability," says Mr Moss. ”

ICANN's regulator, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Telecoms and Information Administration, said it was confident that ICANN would deal with the problems of domain name expansion.

It is reported that many large companies are already vying for the right to operate the new top-level domain. Once they have the right to operate, they can register with the enterprise, charge an annual fee, and ICANN will also receive an annual fee split. Currently, the cost of applying for operation is USD 185,000.

An investment group, known as Donuts, has applied to ICANN for the 307 new top-level domain names it operates. The company said traditional domain registrars such as VeriSign objected to domain name expansion for their own benefit. All along, the ". com" and ". Net" two domain names were operated by VeriSign, leading to a strong market impact.