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New York: As was reported on Wednesday, Internet regulators voted to relax rules on domain names like .com or .edu, which could pave the way for companies or individuals to create an array of new addresses for the Web.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), in its meeting in Paris on Thursday, also approved measures that will allow top-level domain names to be written in scripts such as Arabic or Cyrillic.

Top-level domain names, or TLDs, refer to Internet name suffixes, such as .com, .net, .org, and others such as the country-specific .in. “This is a historic resolution,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of ICANN’s board. “It will make a difference to how the Internet looks and works.”

Some technical issues for the new system must still be worked out, but ICANN could be reviewing the first applications for new TLDs by 2009. The application fee is expected to cost more than $1,00,000 (Rs 43 lakh approx).

Under the new system, individuals, companies or groups could apply to have any string of letters established as a domain name.

It could be a vanity name, for example – .ambani – or a category name such as .sports or .perfume.

Controversial strings would undergo a review process, such as those that infringe on trademarks, or appear to be too similar to existing TLDs, or raise moral objections.

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