NEW YORK -- Advisers to an Internet naming organization narrowed recommendations for new domain names Friday by dropping ".kids," ".xxx" and other proposals as unworkable.
Although nonbinding, the recommendations should carry a lot of weight with board members of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. But Mike Roberts, ICANN'S chief executive, warned that the board could ignore the advice and even order more research on proposals recommended for rejection.
Adding suffixes to the Internet is akin to adding area codes to the national phone system to accommodate the growing number of customers.
Without a workable naming structure, Internet users could have trouble finding Web sites. Three suffixes exist for general use: .com, .net and .org. And .com is getting crowded, with more than 24 million registrations.
ICANN could make its picks as early as Thursday at its annual meeting in Marina del Rey, Calif. New suffixes could be in use by mid-2001 and would be the first major additions since the 1980s.
The advisers -- eight people selected for their technical, business and legal expertise -- recommended against setting up a channel for kids because of potential difficulties determining who counts as kids and what content should be OK for them.
They also rejected a .xxx for adult content, saying adult sites would not have been required to only use such a suffix.<
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