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2 New Internet Suffixes Join Dot-Com Crowd

By Karen Kaplan
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Two new Internet suffixes--.biz and .info--will join the familiar .com, .net and .org today when the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, adds them to the Net’s computer inventory system. However, new Internet addresses ending in .biz and .info won’t be widely used until the fall.

The .biz suffix will be reserved for businesses, and .info will be available for general use. But Afilias, the Newtown, Pa., company that will coordinate registration of .info names, expects to go online today at https://www.afilias.info, becoming the first .info site in history. Afilias and Sterling, Va.-based NeuLevel, which is managing .biz names, will allow customers to preregister names with the new suffixes before they become operational.

ICANN, the Marina del Rey-based nonprofit group that oversees the Net’s addressing system, received approval from the Commerce Department to add the new suffixes to the system. Five other Internet address suffixes--.name, .pro, .museum, .aero and .coop--will be added in coming months.

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Karen Kaplan

Karen Kaplan covers science and medical research for the Los Angeles Times. She has been a member of the science team since 2005, including 13 years as an editor. Her first decade at The Times was spent covering technology in the Business section as both a reporter and editor. She grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of MIT and Columbia University.

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