NEW TOP LEVEL DOMAIN CANDIDATE dotYP
TO ‘DEMOCRATIZE’
THE INTERNET
System Allows Any Listed Organization to Have a Web Presence;
Enables Internet Users to Easily Find Any Business in the World TIBURON, Calif.
– November 3, 2000 – If you have a listed
business but are frustrated by not
having an Internet presence,
or if you have ever spent hours trying to find an
organization that
does not have a web site, the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) could quickly be changing all
that. Convening
Nov. 13-16 in Marina Del Rey, Calif., ICANN will
be adopting for the first time
in 15 years a handful of new global
Top Level Domains (gTLD) - such as .com,
.net and .org – one of
which would have a large impact on enhancing and enabling
web presences and identities on the Internet.
If its proposal is accepted
by ICANN, dotYP will offer a highly
innovative online international directory
service through a gTLD
that refines and scales information geographically as
well as
incorporates context-sensitive searching capabilities within the
URL.
This will increase the number of unique identities on the
Internet for businesses
with domain names as well as those
which do not or cannot obtain them.
For
instance, if you own a Manhattan-based plumbing business
listed in the yellow
pages directory, your business name and
phone number would automatically be displayed
with other
plumbers in Manhattan when a user requests
“plumbing.Manhattan.yp.”
Using dotYP, a small business in
Bogata can now have a web presence and identity
by registering
with the local business directory. The displayed page could also
provide a link to a website or to other information such as email
listings.
Frank Corsini, the CEO of dotYP, likened this concept to the real
estate constraints
of the island of Manhattan. “dotYP is similar to
enabling skyscrapers to
be built in Manahattan to increase the
amount of available real estate,” said
Corsini. “Here at dotYP we
are increasing the name real estate and identities
on the
Internet, globally.”
One of 47 potential gTLDs under consideration by
ICANN, dotYP
is endorsed by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer
and
a member of the dotYP’s advisory board, who believes it
offers more than a typical
registration system.
“This proposal promises to truly democratize the Internet.
It
meets the demands for expanding the traditional limits of
domain names
in the most creative and counter-intuitive way,”
said Wozniak. “dotYP creates
a pie that can keep growing. It’s
not just slicing the pie differently. It’s
much more than a new top
level domain. It will not only change the way
people search for
organizations on the Internet, it will allow everyone to participate
in the benefits of global communication, regardless of the wealth
or size
of their homeland,” he said.
According to Corsini, “Other registration systems
are limited by
the number of specific domains, creating competition limited to
the first, fastest, best informed and financially enabled. dotYP
adds their
geographic location to create a unique identifier and
presence, enabling even
the smallest business to have an
instant identity on the Internet. Anyone who
has a business
telephone listing will be included. In short, dotYP will
provide a
public service, a commercial utility, a value-added resource, and
a
boost for the Internet at large."
“dotYP was designed to respect intellectual
property rights using
only listed names. Our prime interest is to expand
and empower
without conflicts of intellectual property or personal privacy
rights,”
Corsini added.
About dotYP
Monsoon Assets Limited is a British Virgin Islands
company
doing business as dotYP Inc. in the United States. The company
is
the registered applicant for the .yp, .ypi, .ypa and .find TLDs to
ICANN, The
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers - icann.com. The company
was formed in BVI to offer
services around the world.
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