US group aims for ‘dot gay’ web domain

As applications for new top level domains on the web open today, an American group is trying to secure ‘.gay’ for the LGBT community.

While many web addresses currently end with ‘.com’, there is a wide range of other top level domains including region-specific domains and endings based on organisation type including ‘.org’ and ‘.biz’.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the body that oversees the Internet’s naming system, has begun accepting applications for new top level domains today in its most recent release of online ‘real estate’.  Read More