The organisation that manages the world's most important web address extensions " what goes after the dot in a URL " is to hold a vote on Thursday that could see an entire new generation of URLs made possible.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in internet history, a French web official said.
The federal government says it is not convinced of the need for a new Internet address for adult content.
The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, has welcomed the decision by the Internet's governing body ICANN to scrap plans for an adult-orientated top level domain.
The Internet's red-light district has been given the green light by ICANN, paving the way for the new domains to come into play before the end of the year.
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The concept of a .xxx domain for sex-oriented Web sites has had its share of critics, but attorney Eric Sinrod believes it is an idea whose time has come.
Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, will begin offering a higher-end and more specialised version of Linux later this year that won't be as easy to find as the current all-purpose package.
Federal Government plans to introduce ISP-level filtering to provide a 'safer' internet experience for Australian families are likely to be met with significant resistance from within the ISP community.
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