News Organizations Jump Into Race for New Domain Names

-- By this time next year, web addresses will likely look much different than the usual assortment of .com's, .org's and .net's.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages Internet domains, announced that it had received a couple thousand applications for new domains.

The Boston Globe was among the many groups paying the $185,000 fee to secure a coveted name after the dot.

More from Globe joins race for new domain names, published June 14, 2012:

"Among the Massachusetts applicants are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is seeking the domain .mit; office products retailer Staples Inc., which applied for .staples; retail giant TJX Cos. Inc., which is seeking seven domain names, including .tjmaxx and .marshalls -- both based on its brands; and The Boston Globe, which has applied to run the domain .boston.

The expansion will create potentially lucrative opportunities for successful applicants, who will be named administrators of the new domain names, able to use, sell, or give away website addresses that use their particular domain suffixes."

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