ICANN comes in with new top level domains

ICANN has decided to press ahead with plans to open up a range of brand name top level domain suffixes, despite having some weighty opposition.
The decision was announced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) president and CEO Rod Beckstrom, who said that after some chin stroking the organisation is ready to begin receiving applications for new global top level domain names (GTLDs) on 12 January.

This week will witness a biggest change in the world of World Wide Web. After 30 years of its inception, internet will allow users to have domain names of their choice. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) which decides who gets to manage .com, .net and other domains to the right of the period in a URL, plans to begin accepting applications this week for a hugely expanded number of Web domain options.For instance, you can apply for a domain name after yourself or your company. Like .ravi if your name is Ravi or .pepsi.At present there are about 22 types of top-level domains (TLDs) such as .com or .gov; and country codes such as .in for India and .uk for the United Kingdom.Reportedly, anyone will be able register any web address suffix for USD 185,000 (Rs 9,754,051 approx). ICANN will start accepting applications from January 12.

Top level domain names have already seen some scandal in recent months thanks to the launch of the triple X top level domain, which is intended to segregate adult entertainment web sites from the rest of the internet.

Bajaj out with its ULC aka RE60

It seems like India is into an era where the Ultra Low Cost Items are refurbishing the market at regular intervals, grasping recommendation around the world.

After Ultra Low Cost Car (ULC) Nano, brought in by Tata Motors with a price tag of sub 3000$ price tag, Bajaj also unveiled the ULC Bajaj RE60, The low-emission car targeting auto rickshaw drivers was developed in partnership with Nissan and Renault.

The company claims that the car would have a mileage of close to 40 km per litre and will have an 200 cc engine. The car will be launched in 2012. The engine is new water cooled DTSi 4 (Digital Twin Spark Ignition) valve and would give a maximum speed of 70km per hour. The car has a seating capacity of four people.

Tata Nano is currently the cheapest car in the world. The sources declared that the price would be around 1.25 Lakhs.

Tablets in Indian Market seeing Price Cut

India's Cheapest Tablet Aakash brought in an increased drop in the prices of the tablets of the other Tablet majors in the market say it be Blackberry, Motorola and now Sony.

Call it like "Minor hitting hard on Majors". Here the minor includes Aakash, Beetel Magix and newest one is Classpad.

Aakash that was well received by the people in India showing an enormous response to such an extent that it was sold out in first three days of its launch over internet on datawind website. Beetel Magix 2 being the successor of Beetel Magix, introduced the high end configuration in the tablet market under 10K making it prominent competitor in the tablet market. Now we have a new competitor Classpad, brought in by Rohit Pande, an Alumni of IIT, Delhi and IIM, Calcutta that ranges from 8K to 14K, considered to be the toughest competitor in the Tablet market in India.

With the boom of new popups like aakash and classpad etc, the majors in the market are facing a tough time with the sales that primarily the Blackberry after selling 90K tablets in first 9 months of its launch in India slashed rates by 50% for a week to make its playbook play over the tablet market.

And now Motorola Xoom which was launched in India with a big hype for being the first tablet to run on Google’s Honeycomb but received a lukewarm response. Experts believe that despite it fantastic features the tab couldn’t market itself due to its high price tag. They too slashed the prices by 11K. And now the Electronics manufacturer Sony announced its 9.4-inch Tablet S is getting a 5K price cut, lowering the price of the 16GB model to 20K and the 32GB model to 25K. Sony had previously issued a price cut on December 15th in an apparent attempt to spur holiday sales as the tablet market becomes increasingly competitive.