Domain Registration Related News
Two new top level domains
November 2004
Internet authority ICANN has announced that it
has entered into commercial and technical
negotiations with the potential registrars of two
new top level domains - .post and .travel.
If approved, the new domains may be made available
for registration as soon as early 2005. Firstly,
however, the new TLDs will be subject to a review
process consisting of three panels of experts to
measure the applications against criteria set by
ICANN in terms of technical competence; business
and financial sufficiency, etc.
.post is being proposed by the Universal Postal
Union (UPU) - a UN agency - and is intended as an
"innovative standard identifier of the postal
community in cyberspace." Like some other of the
newer top level domains like .aero and .museum,
.post is intended to be a restricted space
available only to members of the specific industry
it's aimed at rather than general Internet users.
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