ICANN said on Tuesday that 100 organisations have registered to get involved in its plan to expand net domains beyond the likes of .com and .edu.
The expansion concerns generic top-level domains, or GTLDs. ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) spent years putting the new programme together so the internet could have web and email addresses ending in .paris, .canon, .hotel, and many others.
As of Monday, 100 registrants had successfully joined the programme, although ICANN did not say who they are or what GTLDs they are seeking to establish. Organisations have until 29 March to register for the programme and until 12 April to actually apply for the GTLD. Each registrant may apply for as many as 50 GTLDs.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see ICANN attracts 100 would-be Net domain operators on CNET News.
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Such a shame they've miss when it came to improving Bank security.
How about having a TheNameOfYourBank.uk.bank naming where the .uk.bank part of the name is approved by UK Banking Authority.
Each country can then do the same with bank naming, and international Banks have a TheNameTheBank.int.bank.
ICANN then ensures that .xxx.Bank name only goes to a Bank approved by national/international Bank regulatory authority.
But of course this would be to sensible.