Archive for January, 2009

Growth in the global domain registration industry — the sale of the .coms and .nets that make up internet addresses — is expected to slow over the next three years, with the average price of domain names falling.

And this is despite plans to release hundreds of new top-level internet domains later this year.

Another gTLD proposal has launched, with .Music the latest one to catch our attention. .Music is aiming to give musicians, artists, bands, industry professionals and music organisations their own unique extension suffix on the web.

ICANN is following its procedures and is moving ahead. Many people filed comments (including the NTIA, but also including myself) on what we saw as flaws in their plan. ICANN is addressing these, and the new draft will tell us how well they succeeded. But I don’t see this movement being stopped, or even slowed down significantly.