Fight for new website domain addresses

Website addresses that end with ".co.uk" or ".com" could soon become a thing of the past. Details have been revealed of the 1,930 requests for new top-level domain names - that's the word after the dot. Organisation Icann are running the expansion and gives companies the chance to run a domain in their own name. What do you think about ".music"? This is a very popular one with eight different arties fighting to run it, including Google and Amazon. Google are asking for 101 names in total, for example, they like ".google", ".boo" and ".dad"! This means the internet giant could have a website called www.search.google, or even www.ilove.dad!

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Other people request names like ".kids", ".school" and ".game". Unsurprisingly the BBC has asked for ".bbc" and there have also been bids for ".scot" and ".wales". The big cost was a £118,000 registration fee! But some haven't bothered to apply, for example: Coca-Cola, Facebook and Twitter. The first batch of new domain names will go live some time after March next year.