Internet addresses will now be freed from the dreary choice of suffixes like “.com” or “.org,” declared the ruling global internet body, Icann, in a decision made on Monday in Singapore. Soon, for a $185,000 upfront applicant fee, you too may one day be able to have a domain of “.yourpetsname,” or “.placeyoulive” or, as Bloomberg noted, “.anything.” The idea, it seems, is to help free up the web …
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