After many years of preparation, the roll-out of .RADIO domain names will finally be underway shortly. The news has potential for broadcasters worldwide (for example, you could have Nashvillehits.radio as your URL.) Yet there are many unanswered questions about how .RADIO domain names will be allocated and what happens when multiple parties want the same … Continue Reading
Looming on the Internet horizon - new top level domains, including ".RADIO". Who has applied to run that TLD, what do they envision for it, and who's going to get it?… Continue Reading
What I will remember most is the non-English new gTLDs that jumped off the screen: Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, and Cyrillic - a key reason many of us worked so hard to open the Internet domain name system to a range of languages and to a majority of the world.… Continue Reading
The universe of Internet addresses will soon expand. On June 13, ICANN will unveil the 2000+ applications for a host of new "Generic Top Level Domains." Once in place, these will change how all of us use the Internet.… Continue Reading
The window opens on December 3 for registering ".tel" domain sites. ".tel" is a new top level domain name that is intended to identify repositories of corporate and personal contact information. As we become increasingly reliant on our Blackberries, iPhones, Palms, Treos and even plain old mobile phones, ".tel" domains are likely to become essential resources for accessing important information that once required a computer or even those old things known as "books".… Continue Reading