New Internet domains, soon: Pilot to LS

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Sachin Pilot today informed the Lok Sabha that Internet Corporation for assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has undertaken a process to introduce new generic top level domains for brands, communities and cities.

The application process will begin from January 12, 2012 and will close on April 12.

ICANN, which is an international organization that manages Internet domain names and

numbers, has introduced this initiative with the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and C-DAC in India.

In a reply, Pilot said, “it will help increase competition and choice for customers in the Internet addressing system.” This new initiative will help organizations to avail of their brand names instead of ‘.com’ as gTLDs.