In June 2011, the future of the Internet as we know it was forever changed by a group of 16 people in Singapore.The group, which made up the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit Los Angeles-based organization that is in charge of the Internet’s domain system — web addresses — voted 13 to 1, with 2 abstaining, to expand the number of generic top-level domains from 22, including the most-familiar “.com,” “.org,” and “.net” addresses, to basically any short construction of letters that anyone could think up.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=97657