Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

This has been coming for a long time. Not only tld's but foreign langage tld's as well which will be interesting.

The strange thing with companies buying .brand would be, what do you put before the .? www? no one uses www anymore...hmm brand.brand?

For those who want to purchase a tld and sell domains under it, there are many more expenses and steps they need to go through to do so. Its a very lengthy process which takes years.

I think the foreign language tld's will be the big changer to the internet as a whole. Western language has dominated the net since its inception but now that characters can be used fully utilized, it will be interesting to see how it changes the internet lanscape.