Deadline Looms For New Internet Domain System

If you want to own your own top-level domain you have about 24 hours to submit your application (along with the $180,000 fee) because once the April 12 deadline passes, that is it for the foreseeable future.

The most dramatic shake-up of the internet’s naming system could see the introduction of over 1,000 new “top level domains”. Top-level domains (TLD), as the name suggests, refer to the very top of the Internet’s naming system and include the 22 generic TLDs such as .com, .org and .net. They also include the 250 or so country code TLDs (such as .fr for France, .de for Germany or .ru for Russia).