“Proposals for Internet addresses ending in ‘.pizza,’ ‘.space’ and ‘.auto’ are among the nearly 2,000 submitted as part of the largest expansion in the online address system,” The Associated Press reports.
“Apple Inc., Sony Corp. and American Express Co. are among companies that are seeking names with their brands,” AP reports. “The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced the proposals at a news conference in London on Wednesday.”
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I hope none of those are approved. Company names, fruits, and other nouns have no business being Internet suffixes.
And why not?
I agree. ICANN is drunk with power.
…and inventing revenue streams for themselves that no one wants.
+1
.Apple works, .Microsoft, not so much.
.tbone