The dotcom boom is heading for another bust. Your favourite websites will no longer end with the popular no-brainers . com, .org or . in. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to ease its rules on top...

Even as hundreds of other dotcoms fell by the wayside at the turn of the century, these three made it through the great internet crisis. Their fates have reflected the evolution of the web as a whole, and now suggest its future...