THE END OF .COM ERA !

Web suffixes like .COM and .EDU may become less common in the next few years. On June 20 this year, the INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS (ICANN) announced that it will relax the standards by which websites may be named. As of next July, top level domain suffixes will no longer be confined to 22 letter options, they will be able to stretch up to 63 characters long. It will cost $185,000 to apply for a new suffix, leading critics to ICANN of CORPORATIZING he future of the INTERNET. Comapnies including CANON have already announced that they will apply for custom suffixes. SAm has strongly protested this Policy and has approached ICANN for a review.