A Dutch technology company has breathed life into a project to rid the Internet of suffixes such as .com, and instead offer single names which can be countries, company names or fantasy words.

Such a system, which enables countries, individuals and firms to have a Web address which consists of a single name, offers flexibility and is language and character independent.

The plan is to offer names in any character set, said Erik Seeboldt, managing director of Amsterdam-based UnifiedRoot.

UnifiedRoot offers practically unlimited numbers of suffixes, unlike the short list of suffixes currently in use. Its offer is different from other alternative root providers such as New.net which offers to register names in front of a small range of new suffixes, such as .club and .law.

Interesting…I wonder if this will set off another round of domain name speculation, Maybe there is an opportunity here, I will keep a watching brief.

Read more courtesy of reuters.com