The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the internet's domain-name address system, said it was on track to allow an expanded number of domain names next year.
ICANN officials, wrapping up a week-long meeting in Puerto Rico, said their goal was to have in place by next year a permanent process to allow for new, generic top-level domain names, as well as to begin "internationalising" domain names. Top-level domain names, or TLDs, refer to internet name suffixes, such as the ubiquitous .com, .net and .org, among others. There are more than 200 TLDs, which also include the two-character country codes used by websites.
ICANN officials, wrapping up a week-long meeting in Puerto Rico, said their goal was to have in place by next year a permanent process to allow for new, generic top-level domain names, as well as to begin "internationalising" domain names. Top-level domain names, or TLDs, refer to internet name suffixes, such as the ubiquitous .com, .net and .org, among others. There are more than 200 TLDs, which also include the two-character country codes used by websites.