02:43 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nA global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.<\/p>\n
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.<\/p>\n
Internet address names will end with almost any word and be in any language.<\/p>\n
Icann will begin taking applications next year, with corporations and cities expected to be among the first.<\/p>\n
“Icann has opened the internet’s addressing system to the limitless possibilities of the human imagination,” said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer for Icann.<\/p>\n
“No one can predict where this historic decision will take us.”<\/p>\n
There will be several hundred new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), which could include such addresses as .google, .coke, or even .BBC.<\/p>\n
There are currently 22 gTLDs, as well as about 250 country-level domain names such as .uk or .de.<\/p>\n
It will cost $185,000 (\u00a3114,000) to apply for the suffixes, and companies would need to show they have a legitimate claim to the name they are buying.<\/p>\n
Analysts say it is a price that global giants might be willing to pay – in order to maximise their internet presence.<\/p>\n
The vote completes a six-year negotiation process and is the biggest change to the system since .com was first introduced 26 years ago.<\/p>\n
Icann said it was beginning a global communications programme to raise awareness of the new domain names.<\/p>\n
Applications will start on 12 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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