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Remembering your favorite websites could be getting a lot trickier soon...

Move over dot com, dot net and dot org – make room for dot paris, dot coke and dot apple. They’re not valid addresses yet – but they might be in the next few years. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, just voted to allow a bunch of new domain endings. Right now there are 22 – but under the new rule, people will be able to apply for just about any name in any language as their domain ending.

If you’d like your own, don’t get too excited. It’s going to cost a dot fortune – at least $185,000 per application. That’s great news for big corporations and brand names that can afford it – but not-so-great news for the rest of us. Domain addresses will be harder to guess at AND harder to determine which one is the legitimate one.