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This could have massive repercussions with domain name registrations. I am still trying to get my head around it.

The guardian writes this:

Icann, the organisation that regulates the internet domain name system, has passed a landmark vote to relax rules limiting web addresses to "top-level" suffixes, such as .com and .uk, a move that could see people and companies register almost anything they want.

The unanimous vote, held in Paris today, also approved a second proposal to allow domain names written in languages other than English, such as Arabic.

Today's Icann vote effectively means that Coca Cola could, for example, register .cocacola; or that a person could have a web address ending with their surname.

Individuals will be able to register a domain based on their own name, as long as they can show a "business plan and technical capacity".

Read the rest of the article on the guardian website.

Read more commentary on these sites:

• Read Write Web discuss implications
• Tech Side Up make some interesing points
• lol catz haz sumfink to say at Marketing Pilgrim
• Tech dirt has some good commentary
• Delicious tags for ICANN and TLD
• Technorati posts in relation to ICANN opening up TLD