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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Early next year, the eight-year expansion looks set to become the longest in US history.

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By contrast, any attempt to cut back on the federal promise to fund the Medicaid expansion would set off an instant political firestorm.

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