The Belgian city of Ghent wants to make it possible to register a domain name that ends in”.gent’. Monday decided the Icann that brand names, as well as cities, may be used for the extension of domain names.
Ghent claims to be the first city in the Benelux, and a private extension would like to request. In early 2012, will CityTLD, a joint venture of two companies, a request for the ‘.gent’-top-level-domain submission. CityTLD hopes at the end of 2012 domain names can offer. The company has the support of the municipality, who own domain names as a ‘tourism.gent’ and ‘library.gent’ wants to go, but he thinks that companies in a belgian domain name will be interested.
To request a domain name ending ‘.gent’ will be 40 to 50 euros in costs, reports The Newspaper, without specifying how long someone for that money a domain name is allowed to use. With most tlds is that a year. Very internationally, the extension is; the English name for the city is ‘Ghent’ and in French is called the city of ‘Gand’.
Monday was decided by the Icann, which is the issue of domain names and ip-addresses controls, which also names as extension may be used. The register of its own top-level domain is not cheap. For the setting up of the domain 185.000 dollars, are afgetikt, in addition to an annual payment of $ 25,000. CityTLD expect myself to an investment of 250,000 euros needed to have the domain set up; that money is by CityTLD pay. Take Ghent 500 domain names; if the full amount is paid, supplies that CityTLD 20,000 to 25,000 euros.
It is now unclear what happens with ‘.custard’. The Flemish government said a few years ago that the a’s own top-level domain wanted, so that Flemish websites private ‘.custard’extension could get. Also in Berlin, Paris and New York have in the past, interested in its own top-level domain is shown. Not everyone however is happy with the decision of the Icann. Brand owners fear that they, to their brand to protect, lost many of them to register their own extensions, and domain names under new extensions. Also, it is expected that a proliferation of extensions for confusion among internet users.