January 1985 - The first top level domains set up in the current domain name system: .com .edu .gov .mil .net and .org

     February 1985 - The "country-code" top level domains (ccTLDs) were added to the root zone.  The first ones added were .us, for the United States;.gb and .uk, for Great Britain; .il, for Israel, and .au, for Australia.

     April 6, 1998 - BRS Media announced the launch of dotFM® at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB 1998) annual convention in Las Vegas to register, market and manage the Top Level Domain .fm
 

     September 1998 - ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), a non-profit organization, is formed to manage the technical concerns of the Internet. This includes overseeing the domain name system (DNS), allocation of IP address space, assignment of protocol parameters, and the management of the root server system.  (Prior to this time, the US Government and volunteers were responsible for overseeing the domains space.)

     November 2000 - ICANN board of directors agreed to add seven new top level domains to the name space. Including:  .info .biz .name .aero .coop .pro and .museum

     May 2008 - BRS Media properties iDotz.Net (#40) and dotFM® (#48) are ranked in the Top 50 Domain Registrars by Website Magazine, an Internet Merchant Trade Publication.

    June 26, 2008 - ICANN announced the “Biggest Domain Name Expansion” in the history of the Internet. Opening the Domain Space to allow any public or private organization from anywhere in the world to register any string of letters as a gTLD (Generic Top Level Domain).

    September 2008 - BRS Media Inc. Ranked No. 1355 on the 2008 Inc. 5,000 with Three-Year Sales Growth of 280.6%. In addition, the Company ranked No. 19 in the Top 50 Media Companies & ranked No. 53 in the Top 100 Businesses in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. BRS Media, Inc. was also recognized as one of the Bay Area's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by the San Francisco Business Times, ranked 63^rd of the Top 100 Bay Area's Fastest-Growing Private Companies.

    March 2009 - Internet Radio Facts: Online Radio Audience Soars 27% from 2008 (Arbitron/Edison Research); Survey Shows Popularity of Internet Radio even as Regular Radio Continues to Hold its Audience (AMSi).

     Today - There are a total of 280 top level domain extensions: 248 Country Code TLDs (.jp .de .cn .nl etc.); 20 sponsored & generic gTLDs (.com .org .mobi .tel etc.); one Address and Routing Parameter (.arpa); 11 test bed IDNs (.测试, .испытание, .δοκιμή etc.).

     Today - Some of the other proposed Top Level Domains: