Istanbul, June 23, 2005

A PublicRoot Inclusive NameSpace Top Level Domain (TLD) system was launched in Turkey as a result of an alliance between the Turkish Informatics Association (TBD) and Unified Identity Technology (UNIDT), officials announced on Wednesday.

A TLD is the portion of a traditional domain name that comes after the dot. The generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) are: .com, .net and .org, other type of TLDs include the country code Top Level Domains (ccTLD), which are assigned to all countries and their dependencies such as .tr for Turkey.

TLDs will be put up for sale by Turkish Internet service providers, Turkish Informatics Association Chairman Turhan Mentes said.

Mentes said the deal with UNIDT and the PublicRoot might offer new possibilities for Turkish corporations, as they will be free to use their own names as domain names on the Internet.

Access to TLDs is supported by a federation called the PublicRoot, which emerged due to shortcomings in the existing Internet infrastructure and monopolistic tendencies, Mentes said.

TLDs also single out search results, instead of hundreds or thousands of results one gets when using the search engines on ordinary servers.

Mentes said PublicRoot supports the existing Internet domains and one of the 13 root servers worldwide is located in Ankara.

The PublicRoot and UNIDT were represented by Jody Daniel Newman a communications specialist with Ibex Group and Celep Bahadir the operator of the PublicRoot L Root Server in Ankara Turkey.