On Wednesday the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published for the first time a list of potential rivals to .com and the level of company interest in such suffixes. The nonprofit web-management group's step to liberalise internet addresses attracted 1,930 applications, almost half of them from north America. ICANN may earn $350 million from the project - about five times its annual budget. The first new domains are likely to come online in the first half of 2013(Click on graphic)
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