To associate Internet resources with geographical locations
Actual use
Not available for use
Registration restrictions
To be used only to publish geographical data in specified system
Structure
Would have structure based on geographical coordinates to give addresses to "georegistries", like acme.2e5n.10e30n.geo
Documents
Proposal to ICANN
Dispute policies
Normal sorts of "cybersquatting" are not possible given structure
Web site
DotGeo
.geo is a generic top-level domain proposed by SRI International to be used to associate Internet resources with geographical locations, via a system of "georegistrars" and "georegistries" with hierarchical addresses representing locations in a grid encircling the Earth. These addresses are not intended to be typed in directly by end-users (and hence are "messy" strings like acme.2e5n.10e30n.geo) but rather, would be used "behind the scenes" by software looking things up by location (possibly driven by GPS positioning in mobile devices). This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A generic top-level domain (gTLD) is a top-level domain used (at least in theory) by a particular class of organization. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... Over fifty GPS satellites such as this NAVSTAR have been launched since 1978. ...
A number of schemes have been proposed or implemented in an attempt to classify Internet sites geographically; many of them do not require anything special in DNS (e.g., the GeoURL initiative). The .geo proposal can, hence, be criticized as making unnecessary use of a top level domain where it might have been implemented using subdomains elsewhere (perhaps within .arpa, the domain allocated for infrastructure lookups), or with non-DNS methods such as "meta" tags in Web sites. GeoURL is a directory containing a large list of URLs and their mappings to a certain location on Earth. ... .arpa is an Internet top_level domain (TLD) used exclusively for Internet_infrastructure purposes. ...
.geo was proposed to ICANN as part of the first round of new top level domains in 2000, but failed to gain approval, and there has not been any noticeable activity regarding this proposal for several years. ICANN (pronounced I can) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
GEOS was bundled with numerous PCs at the time, but like other GUI environments for the PC platform, such as GEM, it ultimately proved less successful in the marketplace than Windows.
GEOS was used in a low-end laptop from Brother International and in the Nokia Communicator (GEOS V3.0 in Nokia Communicator 9000 and 9110).
In 1995, GEOS appeared (running on top of DOS) on the HP OmniGo 100, a flip-around clamshell handheld computer powered by a Vadem VG230, which is a highly integrated PC-on-a-chip that includes an 80186-compatible core.
Written by a group of programmers who cut their teeth on limited-resource video game machines such as the Atari 2600, GEOS was revered for what it could accomplish on machines with 64K of memory and 1 MHz of processing power.
GEOS was bundled with numerous PCs but like other GUI environments for the PC such as GEM, proved less successful than Windows.
GEOS was later used in a low-end laptop from Brother International and in the Nokia Communicator.
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