The biggest land rush in the history of the internet starts on February 4

The web is about to have its big bang. About 1,000 new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs (the last bit of an internet address, such as the com in qz.com) will come into existence this year. On Feb. 4, anybody will be able to create and start running a website on the first of the new domains. The number of alphabets in which you can create a web address will be at least  a dozen  including Chinese and Arabic. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be made. And our conception of the web will change entirely.

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