"We expect that the fee will be in the low six figure dollar amounts," said Dr Twomey.  That will block me out!  How about you? ------------------------ Keith Smith (520) 207-9877 PHP Programmer --- On Sat, 7/5/08, Charles Jones wrote: From: Charles Jones Subject: Icann and new TLD's To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 8:55 PM http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7475986.stm Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called "top-level" domain names... Under the new plans, domain names can be based on any string of letters, in any script. Individuals will be able to register a domain based on their own name, for example, as long as they can show a "business plan and technical capacity". I wonder how long before we start seeing domains like http://nike.shoes and the like. I wonder how many email and domain parsing scripts this is going to break, especially domain names with asian and arabic characters. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss