Icann announced the opening up of top level domains for registration this week allowing anyone to register a tld of their choice. A tld or top level domain is basically the .com or .ie etc. that you see on the end of URLs. This means that any person can now register a tld such as .mytld for example.

However to register you’re going to need some deep pockets as the price to register a tld is at least $100,000 and applicants will need to meet certain criteria and have the technical capacity to qualify.

Certain tlds are bound to gather interest such as location based ones .newyork .dublin and others such as .web .xxx for example. It will be intersting to see what new tlds pop up in the future.