ICANN Makes Some Sweeping Changes To Domain Names

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Saturday, 28 of June , 2008 at 8:58 pm

ICANN has voted to make some interesting changes to domain names and the management of those names.

WebProNews has a fairly comprehensive post on the topic. One of the areas that I do find interesting and worth reporting is the proposed end to domain name tasting. To quote from the post:

It passed a resolution to eliminate domain tasting, a practice of using the grace periods to register domain names in bulk to see which ones are profitable.

Many people have called for the banning of this practice - they have finally decided to listen. Even bigger is the issue of opening up the current domain classification restrictions. You will soon be able to classify your own web address - at a cost - perhaps as high as $100,000.

It will be interesting to see how some of the large corporations use this freedom. Will we see search.msn or search.google. I can see over time there will be a lot of confusion. One of the areas that I don’t quite understand is the requirement to have a ‘business plan and technical capacity’.

How long will take for domain registration businesses to find a way around this requirement allowing individuals to register names under their ‘business plan and technical capacity’. Removing domain name tasting has been a necessity - putting stiff requirements on domain names is a different story. Time will tell.

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