timefor://new.generic.tld

Four new generic top-level domains (the letters that appear at the end of web addresses, such as .com) have been announced. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is expected to roll out the new names within weeks. They are: شبكة (Arabic for "web"), 游戏 (Chinese for "game"), онлайн (Russian for "online"), and сайт (Russian for "website"). Icann hopes hundreds of new top-level domains will eventually be made. We already have country codes in various scripts, but this could be the first time non-Latin characters can be used in a generic TLD. But there could soon be some various new Latin-based generic TLD's coming our way. Firms have come forward to request almost 2,000 new names including the likes of .porn, .ninja, and .ferrari. The BBC expressed an interest in .bbc. Google made 101 requests, including .google and .youtube, and also had more unexpected ideas such as .and, .boo, .dad, and .new. It will take some time for Icann to process all of those requests, particularly in cases where more than one firm wants to own the same gTLD - such as .music, requested by both Amazon and Google. The most popular domain name was .app - with 13 different companies interested in it. But for now, one will just have to rely on the standards already in use, like .com, .org, .net, .biz, and others along those lines.