Google founder Sergei Brin recently warned “web freedom faces its greatest threat ever,” explaining that walled gardens such as Facebook and Government restrictions had, “put the genie back in the bottle.” In March, Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, wrote on his Google+ page “Google will attempt to rank new TLDs appropriately, but I don't expect a new TLD to get any kind of initial preference over .com, and I wouldn't bet on that happening in the long-term either.” Ironically Google is one company who has publically announced their bids and their intention to launch a .lol extension in the past fortnight. Google and Amazon seek control of .internet ICANN’s generic once in a lifetime global top level domain-name sale happened days ago. It was criticised as creating a “land grab of the web”. Naturally, you would expect blue-chip companies to safeguard their online brands by registering their gTLD before someone else does. What actually happened was in fact a surge of greed by GOOGLE, whom went after dozens of Exact Match Top Level Domain names, some were quiet bizarre “.mom .dad .kid .eat”. Amazon strategically, and similarly went after big keywords in their pursuit of controlling the new Internet. Amazon Inc owns: “.author .book .kindle .play .movie .search .song . talk and .video” Publicly Google did announce they now own “.google .docs, and .youtube”, athough Google’s covert dealings were kept secret. Google.com registered hundreds of sneaky gTLD’s under the name of their subsidiary company called Charleston Road Registry. Would you like to get your own gTLD? Well the process itself involves completing a 349-page form and incurring an initial application cost of $185,000! http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/6/prweb9592441.htm IP Version 6 launched on 6th June 2012 to accommodate Internet growth. Basically, the internet had ran out of unique IP addresses. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, allowing for 2^128, or approximately 3.4×1038 addresses. IPV6 was necessary for the new gTLD's. Read more about World IP Version 6 day her www.worldipv6launch.org Can you imagine how the future looks? “Google.mom”
