Who and how are decided those recent new website extension (.family, .xyz …)
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Web extensions can essentially be anything as long as they’re provided by the domain name registrars. Essentially companies that people can use to register domain names with to attach them to a certain server for traffic to lead to.
What kind of domains these registrars can offer/register is them controlled by a higher group called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Which essentially creates standards everyone follows.
Initially we’d extensions like “com” “gov” “edu” and “org” were used because they were kind of intuitive to tell you what kind of website you were visiting.
But now as the internet has grown people don’t value that as much, and instead value having more creative/unique things. There’s not really much of a difference between “.com” and “.xyz” as long as they’re registered for computer to be Abel to find and connect to them.
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