/spandiv style="float:right;width:305px;display:inline;font-size:13px;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;line-height:16px;" img src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51606000/jpg/_51606573_fa1d16c0-9c6c-4f82-b0b8-ab66ddd94f78.jpg" width="304" height="171" alt="Breaking news" /div div class="story-feature related narrow"Related Stories/div p class="introduction" id="story_continues_1"A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years./p pThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22./p pInternet address names will be able to end with almost any word, and be in any language./p pIcann will begin taking applications for the new domain names next year./p p"Icann has opened the Internet's addressing system to the limitless possibilities of the human imagination," said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer for Icann./p p"No one can predict where this historic decision will take us."/ppThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk" title="Link to BBC News"BBC News website/a. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1qrv0iu4_gdv0b4307l21oPdio4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1qrv0iu4_gdv0b4307l21oPdio4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1qrv0iu4_gdv0b4307l21oPdio4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/1qrv0iu4_gdv0b4307l21oPdio4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BbcNewsTechnologyFullFeed/~4/EZtiU75LgwU" height="1" width="1"/