ICANN Approves Major Domain Name Change: 40 New Domains You Could Soon See

This week ICANN, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, aka the Wizard of Oz of the web, approved the creation of generic top-level domain names.

What does this mean for web users? Well, besides the legacy '.com' domain registered to over 94 million websites, and the 21 other generics and 250 country-specifics in existence like France's .fr and the extremely popular .xxx, you can expect your online experience to open up to high-profile entertainment, consumer goods and financial services company-branded domains.

To register a generic top-level domain, or gTLD, brands must be an established private or public organization, prove their legitimacy to ICANN's board - and shell out a cool $185,000.

What can you expect to see as registration opens? Here are 40 brand-new domain names we hope to register with soon.

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tob221 said on 20 Monday 2011 pm30 3:18 pm: Well Not sure why theirs not a huffingtonpost.hp or something like that!

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[single malt]

08:29 AM on 06/24/2011

show me the money. it is just another version of a vanity url.

[Brandon Baier]

01:13 PM on 06/23/2011

There is something about this that twists my stomach, I cant put my finger on it but it just seems... well .odd, lol.

[monica love]

02:55 AM on 06/23/2011

what about .facebook & face.book????

[monica love]

02:53 AM on 06/23/2011

.icannsucksanythingfor$$$

[mariehernandez84]

01:07 AM on 06/22/2011

I suspect ICANN missed a great opportunity for a bidding war for these TLD's. Why not open the process so companies can see all the requested TLD's. http://bit.ly/jIRtJ1

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

11:14 AM on 06/21/2011

Dot bfd

[dead WASP]

11:05 AM on 06/21/2011

.lol

[gabbagabbawill]

07:58 AM on 06/21/2011

this is stupid. we already have addresses, do we need domain's to be personalized too?

[andlat4]

03:03 AM on 06/21/2011

'Its' is possessive, 'it's' is a contraction of 'it is'. Isn't there enough revenue for the Huffington Post to hire editors?

[ewing1936]

09:49 PM on 06/29/2011

Get a life - you are flagged as 'abusive' Enoughh of teacher/teacher..

[chrisduds]

12:31 AM on 06/21/2011

What about .shock so people know not to visit lemonparty?

[EmpressPippai]

12:12 AM on 06/21/2011

.friday??? Seriously?

list = nonsense

[Ayang801]

10:39 PM on 06/20/2011

Can only say that 7-9 of the 40 are actually useful and not ridiculous. The rest? Pathetic... waste of space on the world wide web. Reject every last one of those...

[wonmean]

07:46 PM on 06/20/2011

This list sucks.

Where is .pot?

[tob221]

03:18 PM on 06/20/2011

Well Not sure why theirs not a huffingtonpost.hp or something like that!

[Ytrus]

03:09 PM on 06/20/2011

ICANN is basically a joke. They don't really care what's good for the internet, they just see $$$ at the idea of selling more registrations.

What people don't realize is that the current DNS implementation and stewardship are optional, and there are alternatives if it comes to it.

[wonmean]

07:46 PM on 06/20/2011

Why don't we just get right down to the point and start using IP address? :P

[Ytrus]

07:52 PM on 06/20/2011

Some people have proposed a kind of peer-to-peer DNS system, that would require no central authority. The problem is there's not much benefit other than that.