Tired of dot.com? Do you have $185,000?

You think the Internet is a jungle? You haven`t seen anything yet! A while ago, we were working on`standardizing Internet domain names in an attempt to classify email traffic. Example: by forcing adult content to add SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT in emails, the creation of .xxx domains, and many other ideas that never came to light.

But when money enters the picture, everything changes, right? On Monday June 20^th 2011, ICANN approved the expansion (or should I say, destruction) of the gTLDs: the generic top-level domains such as .com, .edu, etc. If you have $185,000 on hand, you can fill out a request to have your product become a domain name, ie: http:// bigmac.mcdo. However, you might have to wait 9 to 20 months to have your case approved. And if approved, be ready to spend $25,000 yearly for maintenance fees. I bet the cost will drop pretty fast after about 2-3 years (remember the price of a .com in 1997?).

This important change will result in a major technological challenge for some badly coded software, and infinite trademark/copyright fights for others. Will this impact email security? Not much. Everyone will still use fake .facebook and .anything, so that game will remain the same.

There will be a maximum of 1,000 domains approved each year, starting January 12^th 2012.

There are currently 22 gTLDs out there.

Oh, it`s gonna be fun to see what kinds of domains will pop out of this project