Tuesday ushered in a series of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that for the first time in Web history, include Arabic, Chinese and Russian characters. The new gTLDs -- which are the suffixes to Web addresses, such as ".com" and ".net" -- were approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. ICANN invited applications for new domain names in 2012, at a cost of $185,000 a pop. This raised a few mini-controversies: a cohort of Latin American countries objected to Amazon's application for .amazon; other groups opposed suffixes such as ".islam" or ".casino."Internet Domain Names Get More Character
Tuesday ushered in a series of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that for the first time in Web history, include Arabic, Chinese and Russian characters. The new gTLDs -- which are the suffixes to Web addresses, such as ".com" and ".net" -- were approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. ICANN invited applications for new domain names in 2012, at a cost of $185,000 a pop. This raised a few mini-controversies: a cohort of Latin American countries objected to Amazon's application for .amazon; other groups opposed suffixes such as ".islam" or ".casino."
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