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New domain names aid net to grow

New net domain names including .xxx for pornographic sites and .mobi for phones could be live by early 2005. Ten organisations have applied to the net's ruling body with proposals for nine new net domain names.

If approved, the new domains will be the first added to the net since 2000 when seven novel domains were set up. To win approval the proposals must go through a public comment period and survive scrutiny by a panel of internet experts.

Conflicting claims

The organisations have applied to Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that oversees the net's addressing and naming system, for permission to create the new addresses.

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