ICANN releases tool kit to help web servers handle new top level domain names

[mandy]

The group that oversees the Internet's address system has released a tool kit for Web site designers and application developers to fix problems caused by recently added Internet addresses.

Some Web sites and applications are rejecting addresses ending in newer top-level domains (TLD), such as .mobi or .info, causing inconvenience for user...

Many TLDs have been added in recent years to supplement .com and .net, but some applications have not been updated to accommodate the changes, ICANN said. The work can be time-consuming for developers, it added.

ICANN's tool kit includes a piece of code that fixes the problem by allowing applications to check the validity of an e-mail address or Web site against the root zone, a master list where Web sites with certain TLDs can be looked up. That lookup translates the URL of a Web site from words into a numerical address that allows the page to be called up by a browser...

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