The World Wide Web is about to get a lot wider.Starting Jan. 29, the first of hundreds of new top-level Web domains—the suffixes that appear at the end of website addresses like .com and .net—will become available for the first time in more than a decade.
Seven Web domains will be released next week, including .bike, .clothing and .singles. The new domains are expected to draw interest mainly from entrepreneurs and small-business owners seeking Web addresses that more closely relate to the products and services they sell than the Web addresses that are currently available to them.
Today, .com is by far the most popular Web domain. Roughly 112 million Web addresses end in .com, compared with 15.2 million ending in .net and 10.4 million ending in .org, according ZookNIC Inc., an Internet research firm.
Seven Web domains will be released next week, including .bike, .clothing and .singles. The new domains are expected to draw interest mainly from entrepreneurs and small-business owners seeking Web addresses that more closely relate to the products and services they sell than the Web addresses that are currently available to them.
Today, .com is by far the most popular Web domain. Roughly 112 million Web addresses end in .com, compared with 15.2 million ending in .net and 10.4 million ending in .org, according ZookNIC Inc., an Internet research firm.