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Innovation in Naming 2016 Patrick Jones | 29 th UNGEGN Sessions | 28 Apr 2016 Weve come along way with communication & technology 2 Post-1940s 3 4 Addresses need to be unique Key principle of modern Internet communication

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Innovation in Naming 2016

Patrick Jones | 29th UNGEGN Sessions | 28 Apr 2016

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We’ve come along way with communication & technology

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Post-1940s

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¤ Key principle of modern Internet communication ¤ An address - http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/

UNGEGN/ or www.icann.org

Addresses need to be unique

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1994 - approximately 30,000 domain names worldwide

April 2016 – 300 million domain names

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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.

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Approximately 17 million new gTLD registrations (as of April 2016, via ntldstats.com)

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Examples – Visit.Rio

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Examples – Archives.nyc

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Examples – Bienvenue.paris

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Examples – get.melbourne

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Examples – .moscow

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Examples – .ist and .istanbul

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Examples – .capetown, .joburg, .durban

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Examples – .scot

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Examples – .cymru and .wales

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