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Let the domain name games begin

02:03 PM PT, Jun 27 2008
Bigbang
Another Big Bang for the Internet
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In a story with the excellent headline "Internet body approves domain name big bang," Agence France-Press reports that ICANN, the Internet naming authority, will now allow an essentially unlimited number of Internet addresses to be created and registered.

This seems likely to herald the end of ".com" as we know it -- why append that silly and now mostly meaningless suffix when you could have a nice, specific site address, instead?  Home.ebay, or Mandalay.casino or BofA.bank.  How about Graumans.chinese, or taqueria.chihuahua or disney.land? Scout.blog, wherecanIbuy.a.hummer

Maybe people will even create new URLs just for one-time news events: BillGates.later, Guns.R.Legal, HolyCrap.They.Caught.A.GreatWhite

Feel free to leave some suggestions in the comments.

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