After many, many years of debate and discussion, ICANN — the rather peculiar hybrid policy/technology private/public institution that manages the Internet's naming system — has finally approved a process to open up the Internet's list of "top-level domains" (TLDs) [Stories here and This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. )