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December 16, 2002

ICANN, the nonprofit group that runs the Internet's Domain-Name System under the watchful eyes of the U.S. government, unanimously approved a proposal yesterday at its annual meeting to introduce a limited number of new top-level domain names. ICANN, short for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, approved the domain expansion at its meeting in Amsterdam. Also high on the agenda was finalizing a governance reform plan that will eliminate popularly elected members from the group's board. 

The new domains likely will be reserved for specific industries or professions. A few suggestions that have been kicked around are .news and .health. There's no official word on how many new domains would be implemented, and no timeline was set at the meeting for when the domains would be available. Some reports pegged the debut for the new names as early as next year. That might be wishful thinking for the supporters of the new top-level domain names. 

The details of the new names will be hashed out early next year. "The expansion would mark only the second time since 1985 that the body has endorsed a limited number of new top-level domains. In 2000, seven new domains were allowed, including .biz and .info," according to The Associated Press. 

More at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61306-2002Dec16.html