Wired reports that the .info domain will be ready to live by the end of this year. I think that libraries should get first shot at the domain names. I mean, .info is the perfect domain for what we do.
\”On Wednesday, officials at Afilias, the registry charged with overseeing the rollout of dot-info, said they intend to take the domain live on Sept. 19. Although the tentative launch date is later than originally anticipated, it is earlier than the debut of the second new top-level domain, dot-biz, which is slated for October.\”
Wired reports that the .info domain will be ready to live by the end of this year. I think that libraries should get first shot at the domain names. I mean, .info is the perfect domain for what we do.
\”On Wednesday, officials at Afilias, the registry charged with overseeing the rollout of dot-info, said they intend to take the domain live on Sept. 19. Although the tentative launch date is later than originally anticipated, it is earlier than the debut of the second new top-level domain, dot-biz, which is slated for October.\”
\”Registry executives said they\’re pushing to be first because of the strong demand they see for new domains accessible through the Internet\’s main servers.\”
\”The Internet has been bursting at the seams in the last few years because there are not enough names,\” said Roland LaPlante, chief marketing officer for Afilias, a consortium of 18 individual registrars that is running the dot-info domain.\”
\”LaPlante said dot-info will be the most generic of the seven new but not-yet-launched domains authorized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet\’s policy-making body.\”
\”Registration for dot-info domains will begin on July 25 for trademark holders who want to claim a legal right to a particular Web address. Trademark holders will have 30 days to file claims in an exclusive process called the Sunrise Period.\”
\”After determining which domains go to which trademark holders, Afilias will open up registration to the general public on Sept. 12. If everything is in good technical order, it plans to take the domain live a week later.\”
\”The only registered domains that won\’t go live are names that are being held because of ongoing trademark or other legal disputes, said John Kane, an Afilias spokesman.\”
\”Aside from legal and trademark concerns, the dot-info domain will not place restrictions on who may own a particular Web address. This is a marked contrast from most of the other seven top-level domains authorized by ICANN late last year.\”
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