As of today, the .COM suffix could die (well, not really). It is now allowed to be replaced by any word, yes, literally any word. An advantage to this can be it removes the restriction on the possible web addresses - nearly 3 quarters of a million words (some dead) in the English language, creating a limitation on the possibilities of words used in a web address before the dot. Problem being is that if the web address name has already been taken (Blogger, say) then blogger.net or blogger.edu can't be used as Blogger, the brand name, has been copyrighted.
I suppose the new suffix naming will be better suited for large corporations, and it would have to be, as it comes at a price: a staggering £120,000. The BBC could benefit; instead of having www.bbc.co.uk/news, it would change it to www.news.bbc, or www.iplayer.bbc (still re-directing the old addresses to the new ones, though).
Watch this spa- er, suffix.
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