New rules from a group that oversees
domain - name administration have opened up the
domain - name playing field, and countries with appealing
suffixes are licensing the rights to use their names in the United States.
This summer, a group called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, which manages administration of this root part of the Internet, opened up the
domain - name registration process, and received about 2,000 applications for
new suffixes, which sold for nearly $ 200,000 a pop.