New domain extensions have recently been approved by ICANN which stands for the International Association for Names and Numbers, the body which approves new web name add ons. This is a good thing because many individuals and businesses have very creative domain names but can't use them because someone already has the domain name and a well known extension. For those who are used to pounding out dot com, dot org or dot net, we will have to learn to like or at least get used to other add ons because they are definitely on the way. Many of the types of domain extensions that are already available or becoming available are based on other countries' names, as will be explained in a little while. But let's take a fictional company looking to get just the right web address add ons because this newly formed business sells gnus. A new gnu business.
Why is there a need for new domain extensions or add-ons? Consider that there are now billions of web pages available for perusal, each requiring an IP or Internet protocol address. An IP is the binary number that a website hosting service turns from a human language form into a form the computer understands. So the needs for more types of web address add-ons become necessary because just as builders are searching for more and more land on which to build housing communities which then have streets on which there are houses and each house needs an address, the Internet needs more and more web address add-ons on which websites can be built and given addresses or IPs. Either addresses get longer or newly created types of web address add ons are developed.
New web address add ons or ones that haven't been used very much are fairly easy to find if a person just uses the key words "new domain extensions." Because Gnu dot com was already taken the new gnu commerce venture began looking at all the types of web address add ons available to it and became amazed at those sitting out there that hadn't been seen very much. Dot museum, dot aero, dot pro and dot coop are all domain extensions that have been around for a while but don't show up very often. The new gnu business owner thought that none of those extensions would really work. So the owner became aware of the many extensions related to countries were available. "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end there of are the ways of death." (Proverbs 13:12)
While prices for dot com extensions can often be rather inexpensive, such as fifteen dollars a year for many, prices for a country's web address add on can be pricier. All of the following extensions are available for everyone except a few. Dot cn is China's and can be had for thirty five dollars and year. Dot de is Germany at forty a year, .fr is France for one hundred dollars a year, .it is Italy for forty dollars a year, .la is a good one for Los Angeles based companies but can also be used for Louisiana and Latin America. Surprisingly, types of domain extensions also include .sr which is the add on for the South American country of Surinam is perfect for businesses dealing with senior adults, but that extension is two hundred and seventy five dollars a year!
Other new domain extensions in recent years include .fm for that type of radio station, .am for that breed of radio, .tv which should be very popular for multi media businesses and how about .tk, an extension for Tokelau Island but open for anyone to use? Amazingly, the .us web address add on isn't seen very much and quite available at reasonable prices. In addition dot uk, .name, .md and .mobi for those using only a cell phone to do business are available. But the ICANN, in just recent weeks has opened nine more new web address add-ons for use. Our new Gnu looked at these add-ons very carefully.
Dot asia, for all the new businesses sprouting in that region, .cat for what else but feline lovers, .jobs, .mail, .post, .tel and .travel were all approved for newly created name extensions. So the new Gnu business owner looked at all of these types of domain extensions over quite closely. Gnu.info had some possibilities but it was a little bland, gnu.name was kind of cute, gnu.net sounded something to go out and catch a gnu with, gnu.it sounded a little too egocentric, and gnu.to sounded much too like the beginning of a question a neighbor might ask someone just moving into a neighborhood.
Perhaps the owner of the new gnu commerce venture would never be able to find one of the new domain extensions perfect for the business. Discouragement reigned supreme until the man looked over all of the notes again he had taken from online research and came across the one the owner believed absolutely perfect for the business. In fact, the man then remembered that in his research, this particular extension, of the many types of domain extensions, was being embraced wildly by young techies and the entire younger demographic. Nothing could be more exciting than getting the younger generations interested in raising and promoting the gnu population throughout the planet than a domain name and extension that could easily be remembered by that demographic. The extension the gnu venture owner had missed was the extension .nu. What could be cooler than the address, www.gnu.nu? Go figure.
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