ICANN Specifies the Procedures for Allocation of New Generic Domain Names
Rod Beckstrom, chairman of Icann, has detailed how to create new extensions in web addresses. com,. net or. org at a meeting, Wednesday, September 21 in Paris. The current system of domain names has a score of names of generic top level domains (“gTLDs”), including. Com is the most common. Added to the areas related to the names of countries, such as. Fr.
Following a meeting in June , Singapore, the Board of ICANN approved the arrival of new suffixes. “One of the goals of ICANN was to give more choice the consumer and to introduce more competition in the domain names ” , says Rod Bekstrom . “Creating new gTLDs is in the DNA of Icann” he says.
These extensions are of interest to brands. The ticket to apply is indeed higher: 185,000 dollars (135,000 euros), at a minimum. But the organization responsible for domain names ensures that other actors such as international organizations, could be interested because it will be possible to request extensions in non-Latin characters. Remember that once a company has a domain name, it is free to make his public addresses, or to allow private, for internal use.
As part of this process, applicants will have only’une short time to show their interest, between January 12 and April 12, 2012. It will furthermore a long process, because the time will be approximately one year between the bid and commissioning. Despite this, ICANN expects hundreds of applications. There would be no time for time schedule for a possible new use extensions.
“PART OF THE INTERNET“
A system of “objections” can also challenge before the final award of an extension. Who should come back , for example,. apple? Computer or group of sellers of fruits and vegetables? In case of deadlock, ICANN will, ultimately , in an auction. But a problem remains for brands. Have to do to protect all the new extensions, and increase investment so expensive?
ICANN intends to finally treat the safety of these new areas, with the obligation to provide a service DNSsec, secure version of the system that maps IP addresses to computers and domain names. “Owning an extension. com For example, is not the same as to have one. brand, because in this case it has some of the Internet, and that must be held responsible for it, ” says M . Beckstrom. Each year, the owners of these new domain names will also pay a renewal fee of a few thousand euros.
But the opening of new domain names is a subject of increasing controversy. Since April, the . xxx reserved for pornographic sites, is built into the root of the Internet , after years of legal battle and politics. The stakes are also diplomatic, some states, like India, which warned they would block the sites. Xxx.
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