New Flavors for Addresses on the Web Are on the Way

On Thursday the Internet’s main oversight agency approved the most sweeping changes to the network’s address system since its creation. According to new rules unanimously passed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, at its meeting here, any company, organization or country will soon be able to apply for a new Web address extension, called a top-level domain.

NYTimes
by Doreen Carvajal and Brad Stone