ICANN now accepting applications for controversial new gTLDs

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Businesses will be able to use their company name instead of .com

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has today begun accepting applications from businesses looking to buy new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). For the first time w...

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