After POST and TRAVEL in October, MOBI and JOBS have now received a provisional green light from Icann, the organisation in charge of the Internet domain name system.
The Internet is set to grow a little next year as ten applicants fight for the right to launch nine new extensions. These must be approved by Icann, the California based non-profit organisation responsible for management of the domain name system.
The new extensions will be "sponsored", i.e. they will represent a specific community of industrial sector. Applicants paid $ 45.000 US each for the right to file their requests. To insure a fair and transparent selection process, Icann has outsourced the task to an independent committee.
In October, POST and TRAVEL were the first two extensions to move past the first phase of the evaluation process, where the evaluation board checks to see if the applicants meet three main criteria: technical competence, financial stability and whether the proposed extension really represents a sponsored community.
Just like POST and TRAVEL before them, now that MOBI and JOBS have passed this phase, Icann will now enter into commercial and technical negotiations. In theory, this means that all four new extensions could be launched as early as 2005.
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