Worldwide worries at
costly move from .
com to
.
anything
Murad Ahmed and Simon de
Brixelles – The Times
A multibillion-pound plan to expand the
internet is mired in conflicts of interest,
raising concerns from the world’s
governments and largest...
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Worldwide worries at
costly move from .
com to
.
anything
Murad Ahmed and Simon de
Brixelles – The Times
A multibillion-pound plan to expand the
internet is mired in conflicts of interest,
raising concerns from the world’s
governments and largest businesses, an
investigation by The Times has found.
From January, companies and groups
can apply for a raft of new domain
names — the suffixes to internet
addresses.
This means that as well as
.
com and .
co.
uk, soon there may be the
likes of .
google, .
sex and .
London.
But
key industry figures have raised
questions about the independence of
those who have made controversial
plans to sell off the web’s “real estate”.
Sources said the changes mean that
thousands of British businesses and
prominent people will be compelled to
buy new web addresses to defend their
online identities, costing them millions of
pounds.
“If you’re Unilever [maker of
Dove soap], you’re going to want to
defensively register dove.
London and
dove.
chicago,” said
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