Dot com is out, dot furry is in

The internet has gotten boring. I mean, how many “.coms” can one person look at? How many websites can end in “.org,” “.net” or “.io” before the whole thing starts to feel a little repetitive? We’ve spent decades building the world’s largest collection of human knowledge, art and pornography, and we’re still stuck with the same handful of letters after the dot. But what if the internet could be a little weirder? What if your websites could end in “.meow?” Or “.furry?” Or, God willing, “.fart?” It sounds like a joke, but it’s actually part of a pretty significant change to the internet’s network. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the internet’s domain name system, has opened the door to another round of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). In other words, the part of a website address that comes after the final dot is getting some work done.

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