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Competition for new Internet names sparks .landrush

More than a dozen associations submit $185,000 applications to create and manage registries of top-level domain names. The American Council of Life Insurers wants .lifeinsurance. The American Heart Association wants both .heart and .stroke. AARP wants, not surprisingly, .aarp. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers revealed information about all 1,930 applications for new domain names at a London news conference June 13. The list includes multiple applications for 230 names; some of those could be auctioned off to the highest bidder. The Chicago-based National Association of Realtors submitted the only application for .realtor. NAR holds the trademark for… Read More