This is not your father’s Internet.
In a lengthy and substantial analysis of the new era in the Internet name space, the electronic publication QZ covers the land rush phase of gTLDs.
“The web is about to have its big bang. About 1,000 new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs […] will come into existence this year. On Feb. 4, anybody will be able to create and start running a website on the first of the new domains. The number of alphabets in which you can create a web address will go from one—Latin—to at least a dozen including Chinese and Arabic. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be made. And our conception of the web will change entirely.”
Aptly titled, “The biggest land rush in the history of the internet starts on February 4“, the QZ article includes interactive charts and explains the modus operandi of major gTLD applicants, such as Amazon, Google and Donuts.
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