Anyone trying to register a domain name knows that it is extremely difficult to find a domain that has not already been registered. Common English dictionary words are all registered for the most part, cybersquatters control domains that incorporate the valuable trademarks and service marks of others, domainers have accumulated scores of domains, and new words are being created in order to secure a domain for a website daily. So what’s next for domain names? Insight to that answe will be revealed in the upcoming months in light of today’s ICANN meeting in Paris where two proposals have been voted upon: (1) whether to allow domain name registrations with non-Latin characters; and (2) whether to allow the use of any letter or number combination, up to 64 characters.
