ICANN has decided to ban the use of dotless domains

[Brink]

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

 

[Layback Bear]

Does that mean the (WWW.) won't be seen any more?

 

[ThrashZone]

Yea I couldn't make heads or tails out of that,
Besides don't fix what's not broken

 

[NoelDP]

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.