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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.
>
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