Innovation in Naming 2016 Patrick Jones | 29 th UNGEGN Sessions | 28 Apr 2016
We’ve come along way with communication & technology � 2
Post-1940s � 3
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Addresses need to be unique ¤ Key principle of modern Internet communication ¤ An address - http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ UNGEGN/ or www.icann.org | 5
� � 1994 - approximately 30,000 domain names worldwide � April 2016 – 300 million domain names � 6
Where choices for domains were previously in country codes and limited generic spaces, now over 1,000 options and growing, including domains in local languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Thai. � 7
Approximately 17 million new gTLD registrations (as of April 2016, via ntldstats.com) � 8
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Examples – Visit.Rio | 10
Examples – Archives.nyc | 11
Examples – Bienvenue.paris | 12
Examples – get.melbourne | 13
Examples – .moscow | 14
Examples – .ist and .istanbul | 15
Examples – .capetown, .joburg, .durban | 16
Examples – .scot | 17
Examples – .cymru and .wales | 18
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