ICANN (The big cheese of domain names if you will) approved customized top level domain names!
Via The Register
“ICANN, the organization that oversees internet addresses, will soon allow anyone to apply for his very own generic top-level domain (gTLD). In other words, you’ll soon have the power to put almost anything at the end of your url, eschewing existing top-level domains such as “.com” or “.edu.”
“This is a historic resolution,” said ICANN chairman Peter Dungate Thrush, during a conference call with reporters, just after the organization’s annual meeting in Paris. “You should see this as being as significant as Margaret Thatcher’s decision to liberalize the telecoms market in the UK. This is a decision to fully liberalize the TLD space.”
ICANN estimates it will begin taking applications in April or May of next year. The fee for each application will be “in the low six figures in American dollars,” and the first customized gTLDs will likely arrive in the fourth quarter of 2009.”
Anyone want to buy .sc before Daniel (ServerComplete Owner) snags it?
[Source - The Register]