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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10666

31 July 2012
Contents Publication in full By article 25 / 25
BUSINESS NEWS NO. 28 / (ae) internet

Success for new domain names. - Icann, the US body responsible for managing website names (dot.com, dot,net, dot.org etc) received 1,930 suggestions for a new domain name, which it called for in January 2012 (twice as many as expected). Half the suggestions came from North America, 675 from Europe and 17 from Africa. In the United States, big names like Google and Amazon each registered several dozen requests for suffixes like dot.cloud, dot.buy and dot.book. The registration of a domain...