Get any .whaterver you want... .cool .w00t .nyc .scot...

[Sirex]

If you have $100,000... and a Fortune 1000 company...

yup you can soon have sirex.scot or youare.cool if you want... but you gotta have $100,000 why?

this is to prevent 'low lives' registering them and abusing them...

ICANN | Biggest Expansion in gTLDs Approved for Implementation

Intesting... imagine it now

bf2142.ea
tf2.valve

oooooo

[BenKenobi]

Interesting.....!

[Jeffro]

see i don't like that... its jsut something more to remember a website by... usually all you have to do is remember the name of the website and put the .com after it and your good... now i gotta remember stupid stuff after that?! if there was ever a better time to say this then i dunno but I CALL SHENANIGANS!

[Sirex]

Honest, its true.

ICANN's had this in mind for over 4 years now, its only recently (with the increase in net usage) that they have decided to allow companies to have their own gtld.

I can see the benefits thou.
looking for ati drivers?
just type drivers.ati

or want to go to africa?

africa.travel

[Trooper110]

I see plenty of benefits. How often do you remember a direct URL in any case? I usually plug in a Google search and remember once I see the address there. This allows companies and organizations to stand out. It potentially opens up a lot of space too. No more paying stupid amounts of money for a domain either...well, other than the new registration/creation fee. And that should help keep it free from the biggest asshats.

[mapes]

see i don't like that... its jsut something more to remember a website by... usually all you have to do is remember the name of the website and put the .com after it and your good... now i gotta remember stupid stuff after that?! if there was ever a better time to say this then i dunno but I CALL SHENANIGANS!

Your obviously an IE user cause Firefox will auto try .com .net and .org Also soon all you'll be able to use utf 8 for hostnames in a URL.