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New Internet suffix bids include ‘.lol,’ ‘bank.’

By Anick Jesdanun
Published June 12, 2012 6:29pm ET
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New Internet suffix bids include ‘.lol,’ ‘bank.’
In this photo taken Friday, June 8, 2012, a domain name poster is displayed at the offices of Artemis Internet, an NCC Group Company in San Francisco. Some 2,000 proposals have been submitted as part of the largest expansion of the Internet address system since its creation in the 1980s. These suffixes would rival “.com” and about 250 others now in use. The organization behind it, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will announce a full list and other details in London on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) | Eric Risberg

NEW YORK (AP) — If Google has its way, you won’t need to type “Google.com” any more to do your searches. You can simply access the search engine at “.Google.”

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