The rollout of new Internet top-level domain names has hit a speed bump with the filing of a class-action lawsuit alleging that the operators of the new .biz domains are running an illegal lottery by charging customers for the chance to register a .biz name.
In the latest setback for efforts to expand the Internet address system, a US court has temporarily blocked the activation of some new domain names ending in .biz.
The World Intellectual Property Organisation is preparing itself for a possible flood of complaints over the new .biz and .info domain names.
In the future, Australians may have access to a greater number of domain names, after board of the domain name space regulatory body, auDA, approved a report by its Name Policy Advisory Panel.
The Internet's governing body has approved plans to make the new ".biz" Internet suffix available to businesses, providing an alternative to the crowded ".com" top level domain space.
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