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The National Post seems to have liked my column this week on ICANN's next-generation domain names. It's promoted three times this morning on the "NP Entrepreneur" home page (see photo).

The story suggestion came from Naseem Javed, corporate-naming expert and founder of ABC Namebank. He's really excited about the new opportunities that will emerge out of the creation of a whole new set of domain names: instead of dot-com, you can have dot-blog, dot-Kodak, dot-Calgary, dot-anythingyouwant.

There are a few catches. One, the regime has yet to be approved by ICANN, the world's top domain decision-maker. (But the betting is it will be approved next week.) Secondly, simply applying for one of these "generic top-level domains" will set you back $200,000 or more.

 

To read the full, original article click on this link: Canadian Entrepreneur: This will change the way we use the Internet