What's in a name? A story about TLDs.

Sao Paulo city in Brazil has briefly become the focal point for lobby groups wanting to establish new top level domain names or TLDs. A New York initiative called the .nyc Development Corp believes there is a need to have web addresses that end with .nyc, while the dot BERLIN GmbH & Co. KG argues that there is pent up demand for the .berlin suffix.

The Berliners formed a Limited Commercial Partnership to coordinate lobbying efforts aimed at convincing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to approve the new city TLD. This initiative claims to have a staff of six people working with the support of

Clarification on ccTLDs

The domains '.cd', '.ru' etc. already exist. They are provided as examples of past examples of changes that are relevant to the policy review. The review is only about turning off old domains that no longer represent existing countries.

Thanks for clarification

Thanks for the input - it is really hard to keep up with everything.

Steven Lang
Highway Africa News Agency