The full list of submissions for new internet residence endings has been published by the universal organization co-ordinating the expansion.
Requests to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) add .porn, .ninja, and .ferrari.
The BBC was amid the field , submitting an application .bbc as an substitute to .co.uk and .com.
Several top-level domains have been practical for by more than a party, inclusive .sex, .home and .diy.
Both the US drugmaker Merck Co and its German opponent Merck KGaA show up to have practical is to .merck ending, that might trigger an auction process.
However the .uk manager, Nominet, looks expected to secure .wales and .cymru after nobody filed same claims.
Likewise the Dot Scot Registry was the usually organization to request for .scot and the League of Arab States the usually body to affirm .arab.
Samsung - that had objected to the routine - has taken part, submitting an application both .samsung and its homogeneous in the Korean alphabet.
However, Coca-Cola and the cereal producer Kellogg's, that moreover sealed a petition in objection , have abstained.
By difference Google has practical for dozens of the broad top-level domain (gTLD) name strings.
Obvious choices enclosed .google and .youtube, but there were moreover astonishing inclusions such as .and, .boo, .dad and .new.
The looking hulk has moreover requested .music, that has been claimed by 7 other organisations inclusive the online tradesman Amazon.
Other gTLDs attracting multi-part requests add .art, .book, .news, .play, .shop and .vip.
The many contested name is .app that received 13 applications.
Icann mentioned that it had received a complete of 1,930 requests for its initial turn of new net names - 166 of them were in alternatives to the Latin alphabet.
It has right away invited any person with an objection to any of the claims to board their censure inside of the next 7 months.
Icann then aims to make the new domains live in batches of about 500, with the initial set going live a few time after Mar 2013.
"The outline you have delivered is plain and fair," mentioned Icann's arch executive, Rod Beckstrom. "It is our essential responsibility to enlarge enhancement and consumer choice."
However, critics have pounded the plan, observant the expenses entangled and the fact that bodies in the initial lot to be processed might earn an unjust advantage.
Nations inclusive Brazil, China and Russia have moreover referred to Icann's functions be transfered to the UN or other body more beneath governments' control.
Applicants had to pay a $185,000 (118,800) price to take segment in the application process. They moreover face a minimum $25,000 annual renovation assign to keep their appendix once it has been granted.
That might have disheartened a few open bodies from participating, but the BBC's coordinator of investigate and development, Matthew Postgate, shielded the broadcaster's involvement.
"This is an critical prolongation of the BBC's brand-protection policies," he said.
"In the future the use of .bbc domains might make sure calm is even simpler to access and navigate for our audiences, evidently identified as forthcoming from the BBC, or more secure and scalable."
The BBC's made at home rivals Sky and ITV have moreover practical for a suffix, as have the American broadcasters ABC and CBS. However, CNN and PBS abstained.
One internet brand expert remarkable that the business world appeared to be broken up over the viewed benefits of having a of the names.
"While Next and Boots are investing in a .brand for their online sell future, all the other large British retailers longed for the boat," mentioned Stuart Durham from Melbourne ITDBS.
"The large names of the internet have possibly invested massively or not at all. Amazon for e.g. has practical for 76 names, Google for 101 and Microsoft 11. But there's no applications from Facebook or Twitter.
"There are not similar strategies in fool around here and a few large gambles."
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