VeriSign Could Add 220 New Top Level Domains 116
darthcamaro writes "At the end of this month, the first round of applications for ICANN's expansion of the generic Top Level Domains will close. While we still don't how many applications in total there will be, we now know that VeriSign — the company that runs .com and .net is backing at least 220 of them."
Censorship and seizure (Score:4, Interesting)
How many of these TLDs can be shut down extra judicially at the behest of political or business interests without due process?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement....for the Internet!?
No US controlled TLDs for me thank you very much. I boycott US domains, US hosting, and travel to the country itself.
Re:.com is geek-speak (Score:4, Interesting)
And then who "dropped" http:/// [http] ? Browsers are just hiding it, but last time I checked URLs are still the building block of the free Internet. Here we're talking about dropping traditional tlds in favour of a flat namespace, which is a technical change, not a cosmetic one.