new domain names available

by the end of next year, you will be able to set up a website with your custom address and domain name , just if you have a legitimate claim to the domain name and can pay. 


Today the Internet Corporation for Assigned names and Number ICANN decided to end of suffixes such as .com, .co.uk, or .gov. and  will receive applications for new names from January 12 next year with the first approvals likely by the end of 2012.
companies such as Apple, Microsft, Sun, oracle, sony ..... will be able to have their own domain names .apple, .MS, .sun, .sony.... For a fee of $185,000, (£114,000 app), they just need to show a legitimate claim to the desired name.
"It's the next expansion of the Internet, it's the future of the Internet," said Kieren McCarthy, the CEO of .Nxt,Inc, a San Francisco-based company which covers Internet policy and governance issues.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/06/20/us-internet-names-idUKTRE75G49W20110620