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Are they having a laugh at their own expense? Google wants to bring in .LOL web address (and requests 49 other names for a combined cost of $10,000,000)

Next time you want a laugh, you might need to tap in .LOL at the end of the web address.

Google has applied for 50 new ‘top-level domains’ – the last few letters of a web address – to join the usual suspects such as .com, .co.uk, and .net.

Among the new applications are .google, .youtube, .doc, and – most amusingly – .lol, to indicate a site which will make you ‘laugh [...]