Posted AT 10:00 PM EDT on 03/07/08
What's in a name?
The plan was foolproof.
It started fermenting in our heads after a radical online shakeup was announced this week. As of next year, it seems, we're going to be freed of the shackles of .com, .net, .org, and their cronies. To date, every Internet address has had to end in such “top-level domains,” be they generic like .com, or country-specific domains like Canada's .ca. Under the new rules, however, every top-level domain under the sun will be up for grabs.
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