Several weeks ago, ICANN announced that beginning in 2012, anyone – with $185,000 for fees – can apply to ICANN to have a new domain name suffix created (think .MUSIC, .APPLE, or .BEER). It may become standard to navigate for health-related content within .HEALTH websites or shopping within .SHOP websites.

I began joking with my friends that I should start a KickStarter project and try and raise the $185,000 fees to get .AWESOME and, for everyone who chipped in $20 to the project, would receive in turn their own .AWESOME domain name. Think: tracy.awesome, or tim.awesome … or even coke.awesome.

This morning my buddy Pat burst my bubble because in his job they actually had to look into this, and it turns out the $185,000 is just the beginning … it would cost millions to get and maintain .AWESOME, and so would be a bit out my range.

Still, it’s a .awesome idea, and I suddenly wondered if someone already had dotawesome.com? If not I was going to grab it and use it for a .awesome blog. Because it would be — you know — .awesome

Someone already has it:  www.dotawesome.com

And whoever they are, they’re definitely .awesome!