ICANN relaxes rules around domain namesInternet regulators ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) on Thursday voted to relax rules on domain names like .com or .edu, which could pave the way for companies or individuals to create an array of new addresses for the Web. ICANN also approved measures that will allow top-level domain names to be written in scripts such as Arabic or Cyrillic.Can you imagine a web address like homes.langley? Or realestate.langley? If you want a personal TLD, you have to file an application and the application fee is a whopping $100,000 - with no guarantees that it will be approved. However, this high application fee would all but guarantee exclusivity, or one would hope that it would. Does this mean that .homes or .realestate would one day replace .com as the top dog in TLDs as far as real estate is concerned? I don’t think so. Most people will continue to associate .com as THE TLD to have and for good reason. It is the oldest and the most prevalent TLD out there. Personally, I would stick to .com for many reasons, some of them are: I don’t want to change my domain name - simply to avoid confusionI don’t have any real need to change my domain nameI feel that majority of the people will continue to view .com domains as more “official” or carrying more weight. What about you? Would you be interested in something like homes.langley?
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