From: Charles Jones <charles.jones@ciscolearning.org>
Subject: Icann and new TLD's
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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.


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