ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced new generic top-level domain names yesterday,
In addition to well known domians like .com, .net and .org there are four new variations for the end of a web address., ICANN said these will be available soon:.
شبكة, which is Arabic for “web/network”;
онлайн, Russian for “online”;
сайт, Russian for “site”;
游戏, Chinese for “game(s).”
This is the first time these new “strings” have been approved under the new policy that was initiated in 2011. (Companies such as Google have requested new names too, e.g. .YouTube and .lol.)
