How to start myown .extension ?

my own domain extension

[john123]

Do anyone knows, how can I start my own .extension domain names? That is, if I want to start a new domain extension like .com,.net,.info etc - how can be it done?

[mbauser2]

I'm trying to be polite here, but if you have to ask, you ain't qualified.

Start here [icann.org]. Read everything on that site, save your pennies ($50,OOO USD worth), and wait a year or ten for ICANN to start taking applications again.

On the other hand, if the Empire is too scary for you, join the Rebel Alliance [open-rsc.org]. The membership fees are lower, but so's the audience share.

To be perfectly frank, neither course of action is one I'd recommend to a friend.

[CHC]

Simple, get $100,000,000,000,000 of venture capital funding from idealab! then start "an alternative root" for the Internet and just make up your own extensions; .bogus, .walter, .mitty etc. It won't matter that 99.9% of browsers won't be able to "see" your new domains because you'll be on the beach earning interest on your $10M severance deal negotiated shortly before your company became the "company of the week" on f**kedcompany.com

If new.net did it so can you!

[Lisa]

Right on, way to speak the truth!

[mavherick]

May the force be with you john123.
Mission impossible it is :)

by the way, welcome to the board........

mavherick

[Hunter]

hehe...talk about baptism by fire, hang in there john123, we're on your side :)

[mack]

What I am about to say is a bit wierd but i just sort of thought of this today.

If browsers where to be set up so that if you simply typed yahoo it automaticaly placed at www at the start and a .com at the end would it not be possible for someone with a short three letter domain to in effect offer the three letters as an extension.

Say for example abc.com want to introduce .abc as an extension. If the browser was able to do wat I mentioned above then surely
foo.abc.com would be able to be seen as foo.abc I know this wouldent be a proppr extension and dns doesnt play a roll in it but it is something we may start to see within the next year or so.

[digitalbrain]

I agree with CHC ,but have a better idea. if you get a cool funding of $100,000,000,000,000
Forget All !!, No hassles, No Tensions, No Need of Technical help..Just Open up a online trading account and get hold of 51% of Verisign :)...You will have at your disposal all the domains that never expire, all the acquired or "invested" companies and 2 to 4 icann directors...

[JayC]

I know this wouldent be a proppr extension and dns doesnt play a roll in it but it is something we may start to see within the next year or so.

As long as enough people have migrated to whatever browser version would support it, and as long as no one wanted to use, say, email... or an ftp client, etc.

[Lisa]

foo.abc.com becomes foo.abc

Hmmm, well how about foo.abc.new.net, oh wait. Someone already did that.