Many Net Domains possible soon !!!!!

I read this post in the newspaper "Times of India" so thought to publish for sake of Information.


The internet key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds,perhaps thousand,of new Internet domain names to join ".com" making the first sweeping changes in the network's 25-year-old addressing ssystem.
the Internet corporation for Assigned names and Numbers (Icaan) unanimously approved the new guidelines on the final day of weeklong meetings in paris.Icann also voted unanimousy to open public comment on a separate proposal to permit addresses entirely in non-English languages for the first time.

New names likely won't start appearing until at least next year, and Icann won't be deciding on specific ones quite yet. The organization still must work out many details, including fees for obtaining new names, expected to exceed $100,000 apiece to help Icaan-cover up to $20 million in costs.

Domain names help computers find web sites and route e-mail.Adding new suffixes can make it easier for Web sites to promote easyy-to-remember names --- given that many of the best ones have been claimed already under ".com." New names could cover locations such as ".nyc" and ".berlin" or industries such as ".bank." The new guidelines would make it easier for companies and groups to propose new suffixes.Icaan had accepted bids in 2000 and 2004, but reviews took much time,and one -- ".post" for postal services -- remains pending more than four years later.Ultimately, only 13 have been approved in those two rounds.The streamlined guidelines call for applicants to go thru an initial review phase, during which anyone may raise an objections on such grounds as racism, trademark conflicts an similiarity to an existing suffix.If no objection is raised, approval would come quickly.Some Icaan board memebers expressed concerns that the guidelines could turn the organization into a censorship regime,deciding what could be objectionable to someone, somewhere in the world.

"If this is broadly implemented,this recommendation would allow for any government to effectively veto a string that makes it uncomfortable",said Susan Crawford, a yale law professor on the board.