The global organisation that oversees the internet address system has voted to expand the number of website domain suffixes called generic top-level domains (gTLDs) from the current 22.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has agreed internet address names will be able to end with almost any word in any language. Full story
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