ICANN = Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

They’re the people in charge of the domain names. They set the standards for things like what comes after the dot. .info, .com, .org, .tv, etc. They’re meeting today to decide a few things:

1) Can domain names use characters other than the currently-allowed Latin characters?

2) Can other words come after the dot, instead of the limited set that’s allowed now? In other words, while the left side has always been a free-for-all, now the right side might be, too. So, wildwood.interactive, or mybusiness.isgreat would be possible domain names. The exceptions would be that trademarked names couldn’t be used after the dot.

This might be a great new influx of income for the domain registrars and maybe even the trademark industry. It might also be a great opportunity, now that short, easy domain names are so hard to come by.

Of course the other consideration in the dot discussion is to remember that now we’d all have to remember where the dot goes.

…What do you think? Myself? I don’t know about “dot.”