In the expanding world of Internet domains—the characters that follow the period in a Web address—money talks almost as loudly as it does in politics.
One of the newest top-level domains is .gop, which is owned by the Republican State Leadership Committee. The RSLC is apparently allowing clearly anti-GOP entities to register sites under the .gop domain—for a price. This case of curious political webfellows was first reported on the blog TheDomains.com, which writes about the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the governing body of the Web’s domain-name system, as well as about new domains.
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