The Venture Edge

Start your engines all those of you who have hopes of becoming top-level domain name registrars, which seems to be the opportunity du jour. On Thursday this week ICANN, the non-profit organization that oversees the Internet domain name world so that it’s not completely chaotic, will begin accepting applications to manage a whole new set of top-level domains that could include just about any word.  Think dot-electronics or dot-snowboardingsafaris.   Opening up a vast array of potential top-level domains will no doubt have the domain-name speculators out in force.