(CNN) — A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions — potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.
Paul Twomey is president and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
At a meeting in Paris Thursday, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — also known by its acronym ICANN — unanimously approved key proposals to allow domain names using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters.
A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris.
The net’s regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.
all their waking hours. “If someone sees an advertisement, he may not remember it by the time he gets back to his computer,” he says. “But his phone is always on hand for an impulse buy.”
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