ICANN has decided to ban the use of dotless domains

    ICANN has decided to ban the use of dotless domains


    Posted: 16 Aug 2013
    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to ban the use of dotless domain names.

    In a resolution issued earlier this week, the non-profit organization defined dotless domains to mean "consist of a single label and require the inclusion of, for example, an A, AAAA, or MX, record in the apex of a TLD zone in the DNS."

    In plainer terms, this means Internet users won't be seeing Web addresses that look like, "http://insert name here." The basic URL protocol and format remains the same.

    ICANN has been revisiting Web address formats for some time now.
    Read more at: ICANN has decided to ban the use of dotless domains | ZDNet
    Brink's Avatar Posted By: Brink
    16 Aug 2013



  2. Layback Bear
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    Does that mean the (WWW.) won't be seen any more?
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  4. ThrashZone
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    Yea I couldn't make heads or tails out of that,
    Besides don't fix what's not broken :)
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  5. NoelDP
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    Layback Bear said:
    Does that mean the (WWW.) won't be seen any more?
    Don't think so - in Japan and some other countries, the www defines a different domain to the plain one and are sold/leased separately.
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