Original article written by Amanda Gome
Australian small and medium businesses can completely forget about being able to buy a domain name next year. More details have emerged from the conference held in Paris last week where the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced it would allow individuals and companies to apply for rights to generic top-level domains, (gTLDs).
And it looks like the costs will be prohibitive to register include company names or brand names such as .Telstra, brand names such as .vegemite or place names such as .Melbourne.
Last Friday ICANN said it would begin taking applications for new domains next April, and the first names are expected to be in operation by the end of 2009.
It will also make non-Roman-character domain names available for the first time.
Already it appears the winners will be registry operators.
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