Custom suffixes like .vegas, .vacation and .like to be available by year end

Hundreds of Internet address suffixes to rival '.com' should be available for people and businesses to use by the end of the year, the head of Internet oversight agency, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said yesterday.The initial ones, expected in mid-2013, will likely be in Chinese and other languages besides English, said Fadi Chehade, ICANN's CEO.That will be followed within weeks by English suffixes that do not have competing bidders. Although the specific names won't be announced until late April, they will come from a pool of single-bidder proposals — among them, '.aetna,' '.cadillac' and other brand names sought by companies, regional monikers such as '.vegas' and '.quebec' and generic suffixes such as '.like' and '.vacation.' Click here for full story