Planets orbiting stars beyond the sun are labelled merely with the name of the star and a suffix letter.
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The UK suggested the proposals be rejected in favour of a third submission for the suffix from the International Rugby Board.
However, because it uses a double suffix on the attachment filename, many anti-virus programs should be able to pick it out.
Since then Space.com has dropped its worn-out suffix and boosted its prospects.
The company also operates in Uganda and Tanzania, where it is looking to expand its operations, but currently uses a Kenyan "co.ke" suffix.
For example, Australia objected to Amazon's application for the Japanese-language suffix meaning "fashion" on the grounds it might give the firm an unfair advantage.
Nigel Roberts, managing director of the Channel Islands' registry said a Japanese man registered more than 1, 000 domains that ended ".gg", the islands' suffix.
The Plain English Campaign notes the increasing number of jobs carrying the suffix "officer" in the past 20 years, particularly among public sector workers.
The new net suffix application process has been thrown into disarray after the body in charge of the scheme was forced to take its computers offline.
On February 4th Moody's said it was considering a new rating system for structured securities, using numbers, not letters, and a suffix that would indicate the expected level of volatility.
And while the .com suffix has overwhelmingly captured the market's imagination, accounting for about 90% of all registrations, there are plenty of e-commerce opportunities in the less fashionable .net and .org.
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France raised concerns about seven organisations that had applied for .hotel or .hotels on the grounds that it believed that if the suffix was introduced it should be reserved for hotel businesses.
It is feasible that some of the applicants might be able to give this guarantee, allowing the ultimate owner of the suffix to profit by charging individual businesses to register their hotel websites.
Samoa is opposed to three applications for the suffix .website on the grounds that it is too similar to the .ws suffix it already controls, which provides the South Pacific country with revenue.
It is now a well-established tradition in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the suffix "-gate, " establishing a lineal connection to the mother of all scandals, Watergate.
The United States Commerce Department has approved the new suffix after a recommendation from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (I-Cann) a newly-established private group which oversees the world's internet address system.
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The folks at Mudcu.be, who built a lovely color piano music visualizer have nothing to do with Belgium as far as I can tell, but the .be suffix makes for a handy branding opportunity.
But before those difficult talks have been concluded, Palestinian websites have been given their own internet domain, using the suffix "ps", just like the two-letter suffix given to more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
The new suffix .eu has been in the pipeline for the last five years and it is partly its slowness to come to market that helped created a window of opportunity for Mr Francis-Macrae, thinks Mr Robinson.
Although they lost just one of their six seats, two of the remaining five quickly became embroiled in a controversy about their election so arcane that even seasoned hacks struggled to add a 'gate' suffix to it.
Australia has challenged applications for .gripe, .sucks and .wtf on the basis they had "overtly negative or critical connotations" which might force businesses to feel they had to pay to register their brands alongside the suffix to prevent anyone else from doing so.
She said young developers involved in creating local content felt a stronger affinity with a potential ".africa" suffix than to ".com" domains, while it also appealed to corporates, who would be able to unify their presence across the continent under a single online brand.
The .com suffix generally implies an American domicile, though not exclusively. (The U.S. also has a .us suffix, but it is rarely used.) Canny opportunists are registering site names like Amazon.com.nl in the Netherlands or Infoseek.com.id in Indonesia, anticipating that Jeff Bezos or Disney will pay big bucks for the names as they move ahead with international e-commerce plans.
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