Far into the future, when your talking to grand-offspring, you might be able to say, "Back when I was your age sonny, we only had dot coms, dot nets, and dot orgs" and they will not believe you.

The supreme Internet Overlords at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved some big changes for domain names yesterday. Soon there will be a huge influx of new domain name possibilities. You can expect .xxx to top the list, along with other more obvious ones such as .news, .shop, .games, .cam -- there will be all sorts of new domain names. (Personally I'm going to try to get a stranglehold on the sure-to-be popular .spiess domain.)

New domain names will also be allowed to be written in non-English languages. This is great news for developing countries with exploding Internet populations, such as China.

Some spam-curtailing changes will also be coming into effect. The ICANN will make it a little more difficult for spam websites to change their name all the time. 

With these changes, and the upcoming switch to six-number IP addresses, the Internets are seeing some big changes that should really help with congestion.