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{{About|the top level domain|PC/GEOS files|.geo (file extension)}}
{{Infobox Top level domain|
name=.geo|
background=#D2B48C|
image=[[Image:Dotgeo.png|.geo]]|
introduced=Not officially introduced; proposed in 2000|
type=Proposed top-level domain|
status=Unofficial proposal|
registry=None yet|
sponsor=[[SRI International]]|
intendeduse=To associate Internet resources with geographical locations|
actualuse=Not available for use|
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'''|
document=[http://www.dotgeo.net/dotgeo/proposal/html/contents.html Proposal to ICANN]|
disputepolicy=Normal sorts of "cybersquatting" are not possible given structure|
website=[http://www.dotgeo.net/dotgeo/ DotGeo]|}}

'''.geo''' was 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).

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.

.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.


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