New Web Domain Proposals Revealed
BALDWIN: More news unfolding. "Rapid Fire." Roll it. Right now a jury is deciding the fate of Roger Clemens, the baseball great accused of lying to Congress about using steroids, growth hormones. Clemens is not charged with using the performance enhancing drugs. He is just charged with perjury. Keep in mind, he never actually took the stand in his own defense. So we're monitoring that. And, of course, should news break, you will hear it here first. To Colorado. A wildfire continues to rage across the northern part of this state. And, in fact, we have sped up -- part of this video is a time lapse of the flames, sent to us via i-Report. This fire here, it has now burned more than 46,000 acres. The good news is this. And I'm saying some good news. Hundreds of firefighters have arrived from all around the country. More than 1,000 are now fighting these flames. And a Forest Service spokesman says the fire is starting to diminish, at least they say, in some areas there. And a terrorist group is taking credit for bombing a U.S. consulate in Libya last week. They posted this video on a jihadist website. They said they retaliated against the U.S. for killing al Qaeda's number two man in Pakistan and they said their fighters planted an explosive in the wall of the consulate, which then went off injuring one person.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE, ACTOR, "GOODFELLAS": As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.</s>BALDWIN: The man who inspired "Goodfellas" has died after a long illness at age 69. Henry Hill was a New York mafia associate from the '60s through the '80s. He turned informer for the FBI and lived for a time in a witness protection program. Ray Liotta played him in the movie. And the Alabama manhunt is now over for that man wanted in the killing of three people, including two former Auburn University football players. Twenty-two-year-old Desmonte Leonard turned himself in just last night at a federal courthouse in Montgomery.</s>CHIEF TOMMY DAWSON, AUBURN POLICE: Mr. Leonard was charged with three counts of capital murder, two count offense assault, first degree. He will be processed into the Montgomery County Jail and held there for a while.</s>BALDWIN: Leonard is accused of opening fire after a fight over a woman at a pool party Saturday near the campus at Auburn. A current Auburn player was among those wounded in that shooting. A deadly day for Shiite pilgrims in Iraq. A string of car bombs killed 58 people, wounded some 156 others. Many of them were headed to a religious shrine in Baghdad for a Saturday observance. The attacks in 10 locations were the deadliest since January. And two music greats are being honored on stamps being issued in the U.S. and France. American jazz great Miles Davis. Of course, beloved in France where he performed very frequently. Also, Edith Piaf, who's one of the few French popular singers to become famous here in the U.S. The two countries last issued stamps together in 1989 honoring the bicentennial of the French Revolution. And here is something you don't exactly see every day. A small plane just parked on a highway near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Just sitting there. The pilot says he had mechanical issues, so he had to think quickly. He was the only one on board that plane. And the Internet, really as we know it, headed toward this historic change. It is now expanding its naming system for web addresses. Domain names. So that means dot com now getting a bunch of new neighbors. Today the new list of proposed domain names are out. So here is a little preview for us all. Try dot pizza, dot dating, dot beer and even dot baby. More than 1,900 proposals were submitted. And you can see just about any name goes here. Let me bring in Julianne Pepitone. She covered the story for us. And, Julianne, here's my first thought. With all these different, you know, endings of a URL, isn't this make searching the Internet just more of a pain?</s>JULIANNE PEPITONE, CNN TECH WRITER: Yes, it's strange, isn't it? We're so used to going to something like Google.com. that the idea of going to a site like search.google sounds really strange. But the idea is that the current market is really saturated. There are over 100 million domains on .com. So it's really hard to get a good domain name at this point. It feels like everything has kind of been snapped up. So the idea is that by opening this up to everything that their -- to the right of the dot, you can have new things, like dot bank, dot web, dot baby, like you mentioned. And so the idea is that there will be some innovation on that point. Give people a little bit more of a chance. And it's also meant to be a really good marketing and branding play for companies as well. So, for example, if you have a bank, like HSBC, they could tell their users, OK, if you're going to a site that's not dot HSBC, that's not a legitimate website. So there's some security measures there. You can see someone like Verizon, for example, could have their store locations at la.verizon.</s>BALDWIN: But why? I mean is it really for marketing purposes? It makes it easier for someone to remember? Or are we just really running out of website names?</s>PEPITONE: Yes, I mean the idea really is that we -- there can be some more innovation out there. There certainly are critics who say that this will be confusing. But, as you said, we've got 1,900 applications that were released today. So brands, at least, think that consumers won't be confused and that it will really add a lot for them.</s>BALDWIN: So, what about this, because, you know, look, this is what people are thinking, I know, because when you look at these different names, you also have dot porn, dot, you know, exposed, dot sex. I mean, that -- I imagine that just means, you know, that's really opening the Internet even, you know, to more explicit content.</s>PEPITONE: Right. I did actually speak with one applicant who is actually the owner of dot xxx, which is a top level domain that already exists. And we talked about why he applied for dot porn. And he said that he wants to really keep all of the explicit content on the Internet to very specific top level domains. He argued that that would help make it safer. That, you know, you're not stumbling on -- you didn't mistype some dot com web address and stumble on to something accidentally. If you're going to a site that's dot porn, you're probably pretty sure of where you're going.</s>BALDWIN: Yes. And then what about the people -- because I know people are creative and all for the wrong reasons sometimes. But what if somebody comes up with a, you know, a domain name that's like I hate so and so. There has to be some kind of panel, right, that goes through these line by line and if it's not appropriate, it doesn't make it.</s>PEPITONE: Yes. It's funny that you mention that, Brooke. Actually during a Q&A; session with ICAN (ph), the Internet naming group that is running this expansion, someone from "The Guardian" newspaper in England did say, you know, what happens if someone bought dot stinks, then registers a site that says theguardian.stinks. That's really opening that up for some potential problems. And the ICAN executives said that, you know, there's a comment period for anyone to dispute some domains and say, you know, I don't think that's appropriate. ICAN does do a very throughout review. So it's possible that even though we had 1,900 application, it's very possible that some of them won't get through for various reasons, whether it's a complaint from the public or whether ICAN doesn't deem it worthy.</s>BALDWIN: Yes, you think? Julianne Pepitone dot thank you.</s>PEPITONE: Thank you.</s>BALDWIN: Coming up, President Obama takes some heat on his economic message and it's from an ally. Why the rajin cajun, James Carville, is warning his own Democrat, and how Mitt Romney is responding today.