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.
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