http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/icann http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/icann Soon the days of just .com and .org and .net will be replaced with .whatevs and .moar as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved a proposal to allow the creation of unlimited domain suffixes. [WSJ] (Original photo by Lucie Provencher)

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5019921&view=rss&microfeed=true ICANN named New Zealander Peter Dengate Thrush as its chairman to replace Google's Vint Cerf, who now has even less to do. Thrush will be ICANN's first non-American chairman. But that shouldn't keep the world from hating us; the U.S. Department of Commerce maintains veto power over the organization's decisions. [Sydney Morning Herald]

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