Yep, but... you might wanna make sure and wait for someone else here to confirm it as I am not confident. Better yet, why don't you give a call to the Godaddy guys because they can assist you better...

Create your own country... Declare independance from the state in which you live and then apply to ICANN for your ccTLD....

Thats the best chance you have.....

Not really, most teenagers have a lot more free time than adults. However I highly doubt that he will be able to find that kind of money, especially at 14...

Simply put...No. The only way around ICANN is to use extensions it doesn't recognize. Then you have the problem that for users to even view the site, they'd have to download a program you built to direct their browsers to any domains ending in that extention (simular to what.

Www.namespace.org.

&.

Www.dotworlds.net.

Do). ONLY ICANN recognized HostGator extentions resolve to everyone, since browsers (few exeptions..like .info often requiring http:// actually be typed in front of it in the address bar in goofy IE configurations) automatically use ICANN designated root servers (actually your browser goes to your ISP, who does this). This said, other than those who download this pugin you create, no one will see your sites, hence killing the use of any domains under the extention..

Now that is a good one..

Damn, just dont look in my profile as it`s nothin real in it, lol , i`m 19 ....and the dot tv HostGator isn`t comming from televison? I want to be able to register domains like dot tk... and why the hell does it have to do with ICANN as ICANN was set by th US and i`m out of US laws as I live in romania, so why do I even have to care about tICANN as I don`t live in US and domains I want to register aren`t from US eighter?..

I believe .tk's are free domains from some island... Can't remember the name of it...

Right on Brother, Im with you.....

I wanna be sole owner of the .tit namespace and if ICANN is not happy then they can go to hell..

And before everyone comes a rushing, I ve reserved IamA.tit, ActLikeA.tit and WhatA.tit for the central registry. So, if anyone can actually see my site, goto.

Www.tit.

And place your orders for the forthcoming "tit rush - phase 1"..

And like Hell-Knight, I dont give a stuff about ICANN eighter....

.tk = Tokelau (.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokelau.

) - Registrable at .tk registry (.

Http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html.

).

You can register them by becomeing a reseller for another company (most HostGator sites you see are), becuase it is hard and somewhat expensive to become ICANN accredited. But you asked about creating own extension. I agree (even being a US citizen) that the US has too much authroity over the matter. Luckily, they do not have as much authrority as they used to (The US has been under very heavy world preasure to let ICANN and IANA be more independant). In the meantime, nothing you can do about it. But, ICANN's rules are their own, and not dictated by US law directly.

And the United Nations, while thinking that the US still has too much pull in the matter, has decided that (atleast for the time being) ICANN is the only real method currently working that will keep some form of uniformity to the whole internet and not let the system crash around our ears. It basically amounts to you have to play by their (ICANN's) rules, or you don't play the game...

Poor country? You can always reg .ws without having to do anything with ICANN..

No, I wan`t be a registrar...not to register this domains. I was thinking how much wold it cost me to be a registrar for HostGator extensions of poor countries like trinidad and tobago.....

Www.tv.

Has paid 4 or 5 millions dollars to have the exclusive right of .tv registration...

Don't you think 14 years old is a little too young to be a Registrar?..