Bloxx Backs “Future Proofing” of Internet - However, Security Expert Warns That Land Grab for New Domains Will Make It Impossible For Conventional Web Filters to Keep Up With Predicted Growth of the Web. Bloxx, the enterprise web filtering specialist, today welcomed the recommendations announced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to extend the currently available top level domains (IDN ccTLDs)[1]. The move would, along with the longer IP addresses available under IPv6, protect the Internet for all perceived domain name and world population growth rates.
ICANN has set up the IDNC WG to introduce, in a timely manner and in a manner that ensures the continued security and stability of the Internet, a limited number of non-contentious IDN ccTLDs, associated with the ISO 3166-1 two-letter codes (both the official code list of ISO 3166-1 and the list of reserved ISO 3166-1 code elements). As early as January next year, anyone can then apply for one of these new, inexhaustible domain names made available through opening up top level domain possibilities (rather than the currently acceptable .