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30 June 2008

Relaxing domain name laws

If you use the internet, you would be familiar with the common website URLs ending in '.com' or '.org' or even '.com.au'. They're called domain names and, until now, they've always been tightly regulated. But with literally billions of websites, the world is running out of addresses. Now, the board of ICANN, the body which oversees the internet, has voted to relax the rules, allowing more addresses to be used online.


Guests

Peter Dengate Thrush
Chairman of ICANN

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