ICANN ( the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ), the people responsible the IPv4 & IPv6 address space and the top-level domain ( TLDs ) space, are rolling out a large list of new top-level domains. Tired of being limited to the traditional .com / .net / .org and country domains? Soon you’ll have a bizarre set of new possibilities.
Here is a sample of what is coming:
.DOMAINS .RECIPES .NINJA .EMAIL .ZONE .MONASH .XYZ .FISH
Some of these have obvious categories, like .recipes for recipe web sites. Others I think are just random names people pulled out of a hat, like .ninja.
The title of this post, Dot Kitchen Sink, was meant to be a joke, but there is some truth to it. On the list of new TLDs is .kitchen, so you could have a joseph@sink.kitchen email address or joseph.kitchen/sink/ as a web site. Telling someone your email address in a voice conversation is only going to get harder.
Time to go all the way with dot.dot just to make things even more confusing 🙂