New top-level domains coming

[Cole Tuininga]

Bill Horne wrote:
> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has
> announced more progress toward the issuance of Generic Top-Level Domain
> name (gTLD) domains. These new top-level domains will give applicants
> the chance to have a corporate trademark or community name as the _last_
> item in an Internet address: for example, instead of sears.com or
> fsf.org, the new gTLD program would allow addresses such as sales.sears
> or emacs.fsf.
> 
> Details are at
> http://www.icann.com/en/announcements/announcement-04oct09-en.htm .
> 
> My question: what will I have to update to accomodate this change?

As far as DNS resolution, nothing.  These new TLDs will be served out
via the root nameservers, the same as .com, .net, etc.  Much like you
didn't really need to do anything when things like .info, .museum and
.travel were brought online.

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Cole Tuininga
Lead Developer
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