Oklahoma Land Run via wikipedia commons, posted by Roygene, Public DomainICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the body overseeing the naming of web addresses, recently released a huge list of proposed new domain names in the latest round of liberalisation of the domain name market, increasing the number of "top level" domains from the current 22 to 1,000 domains starting in early 2013.

Domain names ending in everything from .blog, .website, .basketball to .moi will soon be available for use.

It has taken considerable planning to and preparation to get new domain extensions to market (for that's what it is, a market), from technical research to managing registrations to the marketing launch so potential buyers know about the new domains. Read more of this post