.geo
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| Introduced | Not officially introduced; proposed in 2000 |
|---|---|
| TLDtype | Proposed top-level domain |
| Status | Unofficial proposal |
| Registry | None yet |
| Sponsor | SRI International |
| Intended use | To associate Internet resources with geographical locations |
| Actual use | Not available for use |
| Registration restrictions | To be used only to publish geographical data in specified system |
| Structure | Would have structure based on geographical coordinates to give addresses to "georegistries", likeacme.2e5n.10e30n.geo |
| Documents | Proposal to ICANN |
| Dispute policies | Normal sorts of "cybersquatting" are not possible given structure |
| Registry website | DotGeo |
.geowas ageneric top-level domainproposed bySRI Internationalto be used to associate Internet resources with geographical locations, via a system of "georegistrars" and "georegistries" with hierarchical addresses representing locations in a grid encircling theEarth.These addresses are not intended to be typed in directly by end-users (and hence are "messy" strings likeacme.2e5n.10e30n.geo) but rather, would be used "behind the scenes" by software looking things up by location (possibly driven byGPSpositioning in mobile devices).
A number of schemes have been proposed or implemented in an attempt to classify Internet sites geographically; many of them do not require anything special in DNS (e.g., theGeoURLinitiative). The.geo proposal can, hence, be criticized as making unnecessary use of a top-level domain where it might have been implemented using subdomains elsewhere (perhaps within.arpa,the domain allocated for infrastructure lookups), or with non-DNS methods such as "meta" tags in Web sites.
.geo was proposed toICANNas part of the first round of new top-level domains in 2000, but failed to gain approval, and there has not been any noticeable activity regarding this proposal for several years.
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