ICANN votes for major domain name overhaul

Internet domain names are set for a shake-up, as ICANN has voted to allow new suffixes to append web addresses from 2012. .com, .org and .net have served the internet well but the new plans will allow for international domains written in different scripts, as well as serving to compartmentalise the web with subject specific suffixes. The new domains should hit the web in late 2012, when we could see sites history sites popping up with a .hist address, for example, or web addresses written in

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