The country worries that the cultural preservation of wine names and labeling will be undermined with the launch of “.vin” and “.wine”.
The country worries that the cultural preservation of wine names and labeling will be undermined with the launch of “.vin” and “.wine”.
General registration will begin in September 2014.
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers added on four new domain suffixes to its internet address system on Thursday.
Native language domain suffixes are broadening the global reach of the internet.
ICANN’s domain name expansion is taking effect beginning with issuing gTLDs to various cities around the world.
The internet forum in Geneva closed with no real determinations made on the topic of web governance.
The topic of internet governance will rear its head again at the Fifth World Telecommunication/Information and Communications Technology Policy Forum (WTPF) in Geneva on May 14-16.
The recent Saudi Arabian government’s threat to ban internet messaging services, coupled with its Grand Mufti’s Twitter slam, reiterate the country’s stringent approach to internet regulation even as its population increasingly joins the global user base.
With nearly 2,000 applications for new top-level domain names, ICANN must sift through bids from giants like Google and Amazon who seek ownership of the purported “most popular” suffixes.