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June 26th, 2008
Posted: 01:54 PM ET
(CNN) — The group that coordinates Internet domain addresses has voted to open domain name extensions up to a vast new array of possibilities. At a meeting in Paris on Thursday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) unanimously agreed to a policy that will eventually allow a host of new “generic top-level domains” to join the list of 20 domains that now includes dot-com, dot-edu and dot-org, as well as country extensions such as dot-jp or dot-it. Analysts say the new list could lead to a host of new business-, city- or hobby-specific domain names, such as dot-hotel, dot-flight, dot-fishing or even dot-sex. ICANN also voted to break the English-language prominence of domain names by allowing “internationalized” names — ones using other languages’ characters, such as Chinese or Arabic. |
 
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