A new land grab for internet addresses will be sparked today by the governing body for domain names — but with a minimum price tag of $100,000 (£50,000) it may not be a free-for-all.
The massive shake-up in the way that web addresses are assigned, to be approved in Paris, will mean that people can now apply for a website that ends in any collection of letters — not just the .com-type domains that have dominated the web to date.
Alphabets other than the Latin — Chinese, Arabic and Cyrillic — will also be more widely represented in websites. But the new "top-level domains" , as .com and .co.uk are known, will have a hefty price tag.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) , which oversees the way internet addresses are assigned, said that the new domains would cost upwards of $100,000 to register, and will require significant resources to run.
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