Broadcast #13 of T&A's Chicken Lips is in the can.  We are DJs at the local community radio station here in Salida, Colorado: KHEN-LP 106.9 FM ( website).  You can catch our show, T&A's Chicken Lips, on Wednesdays at 7 am - 9 am Mountain Time here in Salida.  KHEN also stream's it's signal on the World Wide Web.   Our show include a weekly audio "editorial" on technology called "Tech Kernels from the Chicken Lips." The "column" appears in text form below and is pretty close to what I read on the air.

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Tech Kernels from the Chicken Lips

July 2, 2008
TLD Internet Overhaul

Today we'll talk about Top Level Domains. So what is a Top Level Domain (TLD)? Basically, it's whatever comes after the last "dot" in an internet address. For example, .com, .net., .org, and .tv are all TLDs. Some interesting news that affects TLDs came out last week.

According to the BBC:

The net's regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called "top-level" domain names, such as .com or .uk. <snip> domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts, was also approved.

So what does this mean? From what I can tell, it doesn't mean too much to us, the everyday user. At least not at first. Basically, the addresses you type in to your web browser will become shorter and simpler. So instead of going to www.cnn.com, you might go to www.cnn.

But what about personal websites? Well, I can tell you for sure my website, www.koransky.com, won't become a top level domain. At least not any time soon. According to experts, the "fee will be in the low six figure dollar amounts". Businesses must demonstrate a "business plan and technical capacity."

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