Manu Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 What you think about this? http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-26jun08-en.htm Will this have an impact on the hosting industry and is WHMS ready if this happens? Does WHMCS support TLD's that are over 3 three characters long? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsonwebhosting Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I think it's going to lead to even MORE confusion on the part of internet users. I'm not talking about us savy users, but more the AOL users or people "new" to the web. Even the concept of not typing "www" on a domain is NEW to a lot of people. A Subdomain is a foregin word to many people. Making city based extensions can just lend a hand to even more confusion. As for TLDs that are more than 3 characters, this aleady works. .info, .mobi etc these already work. I don't see why the extension would affect anything in WHMCS . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phenglai Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I would agree with HandsOn. Its going to be hard for the average person to understand. Has anyone seen the SNL Video of the law firm that did not buy a domain in time and ended up with a real funny name? I dont think that if they change the rules that you will see a mad dash of new extensions though. Someone has to maintain the registrar for them and while the rles would relax, the overhead would not and it would all still need managed. You might see new industry specific TLDs but I dont think we would see 100s per year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoBeIt Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I'm not entirely sure what they are proposing. I'm going from an earlier news article on tv. They are saying it would be possible for a company like Tesco to purchase the entire .tesco extension? So they could have http://customers.tesco http://summerdeals.tesco https://anything.wedamnplease.tesco? (I'm sure I saw that on the news earlier....media though..) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsonwebhosting Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 would make sense, and unfortuantely you can see how nuts something like that will get. People thinking customers.tesco is missing .COM at the end of it or something. It appears that they're wanting to open it to cities and localities. I know *WE* won't be offering the registrations for quite some time if they did come to fruition. It's bad enough with some clients as it is, adding more "crap" to the mix is going to make it even more nuts. I guess it's just another case of people (corporations) getting greedy and wanting to make more money by creating a new "bubble". Can you imagine the new "cybersquatting" and scams that would come of this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted June 28, 2008 Share Posted June 28, 2008 it might have made the "news" but none of it is *new* clogging up the namespaces with yet more cr@p is the only real result of any of the latest "announcements". its been possible under the alternate root systems to operate .tesco for years it's been possible for them to sponsor their own TLD (with adequate funding and justification) for years simply this week ICANN decided the cash was adeqaute enough justification what with them being a billion dollar/year making "not for profit" ..... WHMCS already handles it, its just another TLD, you just add it to your whoisservers .php file 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 still a long way to go in 2009 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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