The end of the .com: Web revolution as .com is swopped for .bank .sport or .anything

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:49 AM on 27th June 2008

For those of us who have only just about got the hang of the internet, it's not good news.

For having grasped that all the really useful website names end in .com, .org or .co.uk, it looks like finding an internet address is going to get more complicated.

Yesterday the regulator the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted to ease its strict rules on what are called 'top level' website addresses.

Its ruling will make way for millions of new sites  -  this time ending in suffixes such as .bank, .sport or even .haveagoodtime.

The process will begin next year and will at first be limited to major organisations. For example, cities such as London, New York and Berlin might be keen to create a whole selection of addresses which would end .ldn, .nyc and .berlin respectively.