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It's unlikely that custom naming of websites will extend to the last three letters of the URL, because those constitute one of the prgnizing principles for the untamed wilderness of the 'net.
Those little guys are called top-level domains: they're administered by the US Department of Commerce, and they've all got specific meanings (or are supposed to): .com for businesses, .org for non-profits, .gov for government agencies, .edu for schools, et cetera.
Then there are the country codes—.uk, .au for Australia, .ca for Canada, and so forth.
.tv is like that—it's actually the country code for a tiny little South Pacific island called Tuvalu. Tuvalu barely has a phone system let alone the Internet—there are only 10,000 people on a 16 square mile landmass—so a California-based company came to the government with a proposal to license its top-level domain and plow a good chunk of the profits back into the island's economy. Last year the island took in $4mil from the .TV Corporation—fully half of its GDP.
The Commerce Department approved six (I think) additional TLDs in 2001: of these, .biz is the most familiar.
Best way to get your own TLD is to start your own country, I would guess. Libertarian States of Dingdonglia = .lsd. |
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