To start the internet naming scheme for further choices, ICANN will kick off voting later this week.

ICANN is a none-profit organization that is attributed to control the Internet’s naming scheme. At its meeting in Paris on Thursday, ICANN will vote on an offer that lets companies to buy new top-level domains that can end at almost anything they choose. Now instead of getting restricted to last letters of their web sites like .com, .co.uk or .org, the companies will get an opportunity to have their company name at the end of their URL. Now soon you would find sites like .intel or .ebay instead of .com similarly, different cities will get the opportunity to name their Web sites like .newyork etc.

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The technical foundation of the internet was laid the foundation stone by Vint Cerf during the early 1970s. He has drawn the entire attention to one of the principal agencies building development with going across various difficult tasks.

After sowing seeds for streamline operations and giving off the international rebellion Cerf is getting down from the post, Chairman of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers which is to take place this week.

He concluded by saying with his humorous attitude that “My sentence is up”. He has struggled a long way in building up the organization as it is today. He also thanked those who lend out a helping hand during the battles to come across with a stable and powerful organization.

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