ICANN seeks input on new top level domain name extensions

[mandy]

New internet addresses for general use could start appearing in the summer of 2008 under a timeline the internet's key oversight agency announced Thursday.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) invited public comment on procedures for creating new names, the first expansion for general use since 2000. Names added since then have been limited to specific regions or industries...

ICANN did not specify how individuals and groups would be able to seek new names, but the group indicated that the procedures would be streamlined to permit "a much wider variety of them to be added in a timely, predictable and efficient manner."

An ICANN committee, the Generic Names Supporting Organization, still is reviewing the procedures. Once it sends a recommendation to the ICANN board, procedures could be adopted by year's end and applications for new names could be accepted early next year...

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