"We expect it to be used heavily as an entry-level intranet and Internet server, " he said.

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While ICANN has been controversial, especially over its handling of the creation of new top-level domain names, such as .xxx, it has done a generally good job of organizing the Internet.

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Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is creating hundreds of other top-level domains as part of a separate expansion set to create addresses ending in .home, .shop and .play.

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