Friday June 27th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

The Internet is Changing

By 2009 the powers that govern the internet will put in place a new system for dealing with domain names (web addresses). Companies and organisations having the money to do so, will be able to create their own custom suffixes. Instead of .com and .net, you will start to see a new range like .sport and .news, etc. This comes at the right time, because most of the current top level domains like .com and .net are already taken. This will create more possibilities for new combinations of words and suffixes used in urls. The first of these should start to appear towards the end of 2009.
 

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Stephen David Smith is a multimedia designer and web designer currently based in tokyo.  When he's not scripting interactive environments in Flash or designing usability for websites, he's down the arcade playing Taiko no Tatsujin or creating animation and music on his laptop. He's influenced by the Japanese aesthetic sensibilities, as well as the 'throw-away' nature of modern Japanese popular culture.
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