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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Anything Anything  

Unless you been living under the earth , you surely read all over the net about the ICANN Paris latest adopted Resolutions.

The important one is definitely the resolution about open the net for big corporations .Big corporations can now register their name or any name or just lets say anything as long as they have the funds to handle it i guess.

So now we are heading from .com to .truthsetfree, .google, .ibm, .fox, news.cnn , travel.cnn or .anything . From some others net source it seems it will cost about 100000 $ (well if there is no others bidders or trademark issues).

But i have mixed feeling about this :

  • Worries:

    -Will this really works since we all know people don’t like changes ?
    -Big corporations spend millions and millions in advertisement of their .com already so this is another investment even more if you include support and all the technicals part of assuring their extension stability.
    -I think there will be too much mess though not every company can afford it .
  • Hopes:

    -Nowadays people use search engines for everything so the success of this really lies in the hand of the big G,Y,M and the others search engine.
    -New net users will be OK with the changes since they didn’t know the old system anyway
    -Big corporations like very much their brands or trademarks so the ego will translate very much in this open market.

There so much good and bad on this you can’t really list them all without making a whole 1000 pages ;) , but one thing for sure i know is :

  • -Search engines are the key for this to succeed so that mean more business for them.
    -If you can afford to purchase a premium domain costing you more than a million or over 500000$ i guess why not just apply for your own ?.
    -also how about truthsetfree.com and .truthsetfree been own by different people how the traffic going to be ?.

Lets just hope the new rules which will start kickoff next year bring more business to all .

This my take and personal view of the ICANN resolutions and am no expert ,
if you see it other way keep us informed via the comments, thanks

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