New system is far beyond that. Com and. Net and allow names in different languages ??and scripts

The Internet Naming ICANN board has decided that the number of Internet "domains" tremendous expansion in one of the biggest changes \ always with the Internet's method of naming pages.

New website suffixes should start appearing late in 2012 and could be categorised by subjects including industry, geography and ethnicity and include Arabic, Chinese and other scripts.

A special meeting of the ICANN 's board approved a plan to expand the number of possible internet domain name extensions from the current 22 -. "Com" "org" as \ \ and' Net '(.. of the separate country-specific domain extensions such as \) "uk \." - To allow domains "in any language or script" said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive of ICANN.

"\ Today's decision will start a new Internet era," said Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of ICANN 's Board of Directors. "We have provided a platform for the next generation of creativity and inspiration are available. If it's not a good reason to withhold it, should run innovation may be free."

But the move could also enormous confusion among consumers and businesses. It enhances the risk of "phishing" sites because they might look confusing domain name in the language scripts, similar to existing, in order to capture peoples 'details.

And for companies, the challenge is to decide whether they register their names in all possible domains, or to create their own suffix, or be limited to a small number of domains.

The need for a greater number of global top-level domains - gTLDs - has become increasingly clear with the increasing number of languages ??on the Internet and the transition to IPv6, a new numbering system for Internet addresses, which greatly expands the number of devices used to be directly connected to the network.

Icann's decision follows years of discussion and debate, and went through more than seven revisions. Icann insists that strong efforts were made to address the concerns of all interested parties, and to ensure that the security, stability and resiliency of the internet are not compromised.

The move is the biggest change to the internet's domain naming system since ".com" was introduced 26 years ago, which opened out the formerly academic and military system to commercial use.

ICANN will receive applications for new domain names for 90 days from 12 January 2012. The fee is $ 185,000, and the form for application is 360 pages long. There is also an awareness campaign to begin pointing out that it introduced the new scheme.