.FROGANS Shows Innovation in ICANN’s View

Among all the applicants that required new strings, there is one that fits ICANN’s policy of promoting innovation regarding website functionality. The .frogans gTLD was not created in order to sell a website or an email address, it was meant to allow new techniques of publishing that will work in any location and on any device.

The released domain names get.frogans and fcr.frogans are the places where users will be able to download the Frogans Player which is useful for any of the businesses that will want to present themselves mainly as applications. For instance, restaurants can show their menus options, a press agency can display their main headlines, or a bike shop will show how many bicycles are available for hiring at a certain moment. This comes with other advantages, the small bandwidth required to run these applications, very handy in countries where data amounts are short and expensive, and the guaranteed security against all kinds of attacks.

In point of design, they seem to resemble Windows 7 widgets and they run independently of the protocol they use, their simple name typed being enough to enable them.

As for the prices, a normal registered address with this string will cost  €6 a year, while companies names may climb up to a price of  €1.500 a year. Ten languages are allowed for registering the addresses, namely Latin, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Devanagari and Cyrillic.

The final version of the Frogans Player will be released in the second half of this year.