I love this visual, via ICANN, a diagram of the world’s top-level domains (TLDs) — all 280 of them.
The overwhelming majority of TLDs are country codes, most of which are included in the poster I published about a year ago.
Looking ahead, I would expect the “g” domains to multiply in number. These generic TLDs include domains such as .biz and .info. ICANN recently opened a call for applications to open gTLDs for governments and corporations.
New gTLDs could include “.coke” and “.paris.” It remains to be seen if companies are willing to put up the cash to get these domains, but I’m fairly certain a good many will.
But for now at least the total number of TLDs stands at 280.
The new DNS software for consumer’s CPE devices (set-top-boxes) will
now support 4,096 DLDs instead of
2,048 DLDs.
Names of the form NAME.INC are first looked up as NAME-INC.com.
http://www.icann.org/en/comments-mail/icann-current/msg00342.html
There is no need for much of what ICANN claims to do. The selection of TLDs is automated.
By the way, since .COM is used as the base. The .BIZ name space will be re-worked.
Since 1999, the number of DLDs has been expanded
from 2,048 to 4,096. Here is some of the old list:
10514 INC
9264 ONLINE
7288 NET
6472 USA
4481 GROUP
4101 WEB
3891 TECH
3077 UK
2762 DESIGN
2570 SYSTEMS
2542 IT
2415 US
2378 SOLUTIONS
2322 LINE
2209 LAW
2171 CONSULTING
2161 INFO
2033 SERVICES
2027 WORLD
1966 SOFTWARE
1940 INTERNATIONAL
1932 INTL
1880 CORP
1874 CO
1803 SHOP
1795 FRANCE
1720 HOMES
1671 S
1638 ART
1603 TV
1587 TRAVEL
1555 MAIL
1534 EUROPE
1529 DIRECT
1491 MEDIA
1487 MALL
1431 E
1419 LTD
1417 ASSOCIATES
1411 1
1361 SERVICE
1342 2000
1339 Z
1301 NETWORK
1289 NEWS
1269 INT
1232 SA
1218 ENTERPRISES
1217 CENTER
1216 CLUB
1202 MARKETING
1177 REALTY
1161 MUSIC
1149 STORE
1144 INSURANCE
1108 I
1101 COM
1083 PRODUCTS
1070 REALESTATE
1068 JP
1045 GMBH
1041 X
1022 SALES
1018 PLUS
1000 LINK
999 AMERICA
995 INDIA
993 ONE
981 HOME
979 SEX
968 JOBS
955 ENT
945 CHINA
940 COMPUTERS
934 GUIDE
928 SOFT
926 FR
919 CITY
908 INTERNET
904 NOW
900 ASSOC