Stefanie wrote:

The net's regulators will vote on Thursday to decide if the strict rules on so-called top level domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed. If approved, it could allow companies to turn their brands into domain names while individuals could also carve out their own corner of the net.

Hundreds of new domain names could be created by the end of the year, rising to thousands in the future. Icann says any string of letters can be registered as a domain, but there will be an independent arbitration process for people with grounds for objection.

".meme"?

Apparently, whoever wrote this article is totally clueless. If you read down the thread on slashdot, someone comments that they heard the actual interview on the bbc and the interviewer didn't understand the difference between ip addresses and domain names.

RE: Icann & Top Level Domain Names - 'Shake-up' for internet proposed