The company formed in 1998 for the purpose of one day managing a top-level domain.
The standard Russian country code top-level domain ".ru" has been joined by the Cyrillic alphabet rendering of ".rf".
EURid is the not-for-profit organisation that operates the .eu top-level domain, following the appointment by the European Commission.
And now it intends to accept new top-level domain names at a clip of up to 1, 000 annually.
They included .bet, .islam, .gay and .news as alternatives to existing generic top-level domain (gTLD) names such as .com and .org.
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There will be several hundred new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), which could include such addresses as .google, .coke, or even .
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He told AMs that Wales was in danger of falling behind cities like Berlin and New York who are already set to adopt similar top-level domain names.
And in the current system of nearly 300 top-level domain names, brand owners must monitor, register, and enforce their trademarks across a wide spectrum of online real estate.
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Over the weekend, I read with some interest about how the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is entertaining applications by individual corporations to control new top-level domain names.
While ICANN has been controversial, especially over its handling of the creation of new top-level domain names, such as .xxx, it has done a generally good job of organizing the Internet.
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The suffixes are some of the 1, 927 top-level domain names currently being considered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization in charge of managing Internet naming standards.
Ms Hart also told AMs she hoped the result of the application for the top-level domain names will be revealed by the end of the year, but warned it could drag into 2013.
Most top-level domain equity today lies in .
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The application season, from January to May, was the first time in more than a decade that anyone could apply for a new top-level domain of just about any kind domains the applicants themselves picked out, such as .pizza.
While the new regime ends NSI's monopoly over the award of top-level domain names, the Commission is concerned that highly restrictive provisions in its licensing agreements with companies wanting to enter the market for domain-name registration will discourage competition.
Perhaps in some slow-moving companies, those hardened-silo outlooks persist, but in top-performing businesses across the world, all C-level execs are balancing their domain expertise with intense focus on customer behavior and other external factors.
The .eu domain ranks among the largest top-level domains in the world, connecting 500 million people in 27 EU countries to one Internet identity.
In about three months, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will open up the application process for new top-level domains (TLDs), allowing companies and other organizations alike to apply to obtain their own domain extensions.
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