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 federal government says it is not convinced of the need for a new Internet address for adult content.
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 Internet's administrative body should reject proposals to create special areas on the Internet for kids and adults when it decides what domains should be the first to supplement the popular .com, .net and .org, a staff report recommends.
Hundreds of representatives, from Internet interest groups to companies that register domain names, have flown in from all over the world to attend ICANN's quarterly meeting.
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