International and (Galactic) Rock Star William Shatner is "Moving The Internet Forward" by identifying and helping to solve an issue on the Internet that few Americans are even aware of. Always light years ahead of his time, William Shatner, co-host of "Moving America Forward", and Doug Llwelyn from "The People's Court" are profiling a great American company, Global Domains International, an Internet success story. Global Domains International, or GDI, is the exclusive registry for the top level domain name dot-WS. Top level domain name (TLD) means that the domain name (the web URL) can be accessed anywhere in the world via the Internet. Dot-com is the most popular top level domain. Other well known ones are dot-net, -gov, -edu, and -org, and new top level domain names will be entering the marketplace.  

Global Domains International first started to register dot-WS domain names in 1999. Dot-WS stands for WebSite, which in an alternative to dot-com.  To even understand the problem, the majority of the Internet growth in occurring overseas with developing countries that are now just "logging" on. However, the majority of these new international users do not speak or understand English. While the websites overseas are all in their native language, the domain name is exclusively in the English or Latin alphabet.

A simple example is using a foreign language; how would you like to type in a website address that looked like this?

ナンセンス .セン 

The problem that the vast majority of Americans are not even consciously aware of has been limiting the growth of the Internet worldwide. But it will soon be rectified by a new and revolutionary product of Global Domains International known as "Internationalized Domain Names", or IDNs. Unlike dot-com and other top level domain names, dot-WS domain names can be in their own native language, with the only two English letters, WS. Look at your standard computer keyboard; W and S are right next to each other on the standard keyboard. A perfect solution.

With these new Internationalized domain names, it is safe to say that dot-WS is "BoldlyGoing Where No Top Level Domain Name Has Gone Before"

Best of all, Global Domain Names International has made a significant investment in their own infra structure to allow companies, non-profits and individuals who wish to sell dot-WS domain names worldwide to do so as a GDI affiliate for as little as $10 a month.  In short, GDI is looking for those that wish to "live long and prosper".

Another way of looking at this "new frontier" on the web is to look back at the very first dot-com domain name reserved, and what having easy to remember, easy to access domain names meant to the explosion of the World Wide Web. On March 15th, 1985, Symbolics.com appeared on the Internet and ushered in the commercial age of the web. A domain name made it simple for the average person to remember a long series of number and dots. Instead, ATT.Com or IBM.Com could be entered into a browser for instant web access. The rest is literally history.  

The "Moving America Forward" Show that will feature Global Domains International CEO Michael Starr will be taped on May 10th in LA and will air live on Mark Burnette's new cable network youtoo on or before June 10th.   It will also be distributed on multiple Internet channels and social media platforms.

What else might William Shatner be doing with Dot WS. Stay Tuned, The Best Is Yet To Come.