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Do you dot.com or dot.co.uk? Well those endings may be a thing of the past- under changes being announced today you might find web addresses ending with dot.anything...dot.pepsi or .coke for instance.

Rod Beckstrom, the president and chief executive of ICANN - the organisation that regulates domain names, explains why this is happening now.

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