".Oops": Glitch forces extension for new suffixes

Friday, April 13, 2012 - 12:00 in Mathematics & Economics

You're probably familiar with ".com" and ".org." How about ".oops"? A technical glitch forced the abrupt shutdown of a system for letting companies and organizations propose new Internet domain name suffixes. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is in charge of domain names, said some private data may have been exposed.

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