2008年07月07日 星期一 14:20
CSDN直到今天才在首页登出与此相关的消息: http://news.csdn.net/n/20080707/117170.html Bill Xu wrote: > http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-26jun08-en.htm > > Biggest Expansion to Internet in Forty Years Approved for Implementation > > 26 June 2008 > > * Paris, France:* The Board of ICANN today approved a recommendation > that could see a whole range of new names introduced to the Internet's > addressing system. > > "The Board today accepted a recommendation from its global > stakeholders that it is possible to implement many new names to the > Internet, paving the way for an expansion of domain name choice and > opportunity" said Dr Paul Twomey, President and CEO of ICANN. > > A final version of the implementation plan must be approved by the > ICANN Board before the new process is launched. It is intended that > the final version will be published in early 2009. > > "The potential here is huge. It represents a whole new way for people > to express themselves on the Net," said Dr Twomey. "It's a massive > increase in the 'real estate' of the Internet." > > Presently, users have a limited range of 21 top level domains to > choose from — names that we are all familiar with like .com, .org, .info. > > This proposal allows applicants for new names to self-select their > domain name so that choices are most appropriate for their customers > or potentially the most marketable. It is expected that applicants > will apply for targeted community strings such as (the existing) > .travel for the travel industry and .cat for the Catalan community (as > well as generic strings like .brandname or .yournamehere). There are > already interested consortiums wanting to establish city-based top > level domain, like .nyc (for New York City), .berlin and .paris. > > "One of the most exciting prospect before us is that the expanding > system is also being planned to support extensions in the languages of > the world," said Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN's Chairman. "This is > going to be very important for the future of the Internet in Asia, the > Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia." The present system only > supports 37 Roman characters. > > Upon approval of the implementation plan, it is planned that > applications for new names will be available in the second quarter of > 2009. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > zeuux-universe mailing list > zeuux-universe at zeuux.org > http://www.zeuux.org/mailman/listinfo/zeuux-universe > > ZEUUX Project - Free Software, Free Society! > http://www.zeuux.org -- 夏清然 Xia Qingran qingran at zeuux.org
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