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Domain suffix bids include .lol, .sex & .pizza

Domain suffix bids include .lol, .sex & .pizza

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The web is set to be littered with a whole host of new domain suffixes from next year, and the body dealing with the expansion has now revealed the full colourful list of submissions. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as Icann, says it has received a total of 1,930 requests, after the application process was left open to "the limitless possibilities of the human imagination". .lol is one of Google's 101 submissions and .pizza is wanted by...



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