A PERTH based Telcom company, iiNet announced plans to apply for the gTLD .iiNet
“iiNet’s operations manager Roger Yerramsetti is quoted saying:
The $200,000 cost for .iiNet was a ”relatively cheap way to secure a part of the internet”
The company apparently has selected ARI Registry Services which according to the article discussing the application, charges $50,000 for the application process.
While Mr. Yerramsetti boasts in the article that he is sure no one else will apply for the domain so they should be approved in November, I personally am not sure that Verisign won’t object to the extension as being confusingly similar to .net.
If Verisign would object to the string that would derail the application taking it through an objection process which would no doubt drag into 2014.
Pick up a Popular Mechanics from the 30’s-70’s.
There are all kinds of stories about what ‘the future holds’.
Flying cars, robot servants, an elaborate network of pneumatic tubes that will ship mail and retail packages from the merchants shop right to your doorstep, on command…
In most cases, the science is sound. We certainlly *could* do all those things if we really wanted to and in a few cases, we did. We do have talking movies, color television, telephones without wires, supercomputers that we can carry in our pockets… yet a lot of things haven’t really changed much, in all this time. The vaunted “Year 2000” is twelve years in the rear view mirror yet we still drive our cars (that don’t fly), robots don’t work our day jobs and I have yet to buy that jetpack.
A huge intellectual trap is to overvalue academia, relative to predictable human behavior.
.com represents an ingrained human behavior.
Always keep your ear to the ground and listen for change, but ‘theorize away’ reality at your peril.