ICANN Chooses New Top-Level Domains

After long deliberations, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved seven new top-level Internet domains last November. This is the first time new domains have been introduced since the mid-1990s, when .com, .net, and .org were added. Here are the new domains and their winning sponsors:

• .biz, by JVTeam, LLC
• .info, by Afilias, LLC
• .name, by Global Name Registry Ltd.
• .pro, by RegistryPro, Ltd.
• .museum, by the Museum Domain Management Association
• .aero, by Societi Internationale de Tilicommunications Aironautiques
• .coop, by the National Cooperative Business Association

To learn more about ICANN's top-level domain program, see http://www.icann.org/tlds/