There is a special second level domain - rope.uk - for manufacturers of rope or anything that rhymes with it.

The Catholic church has just purchased a new domain under that hierarchy.

Icann is about to introduce a several new top level domains to increase capacity for popular types of sites. They are:

• .bananaicecream
• .clip
• .sockhop
• .welshman
• .zx81
• .dinghy
• .jup (the new code for domains hosted on Jupiter)
• .flintstones

Everybody agrees that these make a creditable and necessary extension of cyberspace.

They turned down lobbying for .shambles and .hannibal

Although they will be introducing .spam and .scam very soon to help with filtering content.