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 great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the Internet protocol.
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 last week said it was ready to start assigning Internet addresses using the latest version of Internet Protocol, IPv6.
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ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf fires back at critics who say his organisation impedes innovation on the Internet.
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