A Different Domain
TECHwatch Articles
Tim Jennings - Published 06/02/2009
From an initially narrow range of geographical and sector divisions, generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) on the Internet are beginning to proliferate in several different directions. Over the last few years, the familiar .com, .co.uk, .gov, .org and similar suffixes have been joined by identifiers such as .info, .biz, and .name, along with a number of more specialist domains. Indeed, a hotly-debated scheme by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) (the non-profit body responsible f…
