Domain address with optional suffix

A Dutch technology company has blown a new breath into the current campaign to remove Internet suffixes like .com and instead have a country name, company name or any interesting word.

Such a system allows countries, companies and individuals to own addresses that contain their own names in order to create flexibility and independence of languages ​​and characters. " The goal of the project is to provide domain names with any set of letters ," said Erik Seeboldt, UnifiedRoot CEO in Amsterdam.

UnifiedRoot builds an unlimited suffix, completely different from the current limited list. " We have received thousands of registrations every day, " Seeboldt said after the opening of the company with 13 root servers Internet domain systems installed on four continents.

UnifiedRoot has contracted with most Internet service providers in Turkey. The Netherlands Schiphol Airport is also one of the earliest customers. The price for registering a suffix is ​​US $ 1,000 plus an annual subscription fee of US $ 240. Companies can then create other website addresses by themselves based on the top level domain name (top lever domain - TLD), for example, flights.schiphol or parking.schiphol .

Many people criticize that companies like UnifiedRoot will cause confusion in managing web traffic. The current address system is only identified by certain computers, under the management of the International Domain Name Organization (ICANN). ICANN can also decide which root servers are allowed to identify the top-level domain names.

"Those who think they can add top-level domains or suffixes are actually just copyright infringers," said Paul Vixie, ICANN board member.

At WSIS 2005 Information Society Summit (November 16-18) in Tunisia, many countries expressed their desire to remove ICANN's executive powers but the US refused to give in.