Combining two sentences with relative pronouns
based on VOA’s “Internet change makes way for dot-anything”
Combine the two sentences using a relative pronoun.
1. A top-level domain is the part of an Internet address.
It comes after the dot.
2. The generic top-level domains are dot-com, dot-net and dot-org.
They are the most common.
3. The generic top-level domain names include dot-com, dot-net and dot-org.
They are currently available.
4. The international organization will begin accepting applications for new ones in January.
It controls top-level domain names.
5. Brad White is with ICANN.
It stands for the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
6. We’re talking about the new generic top-level domain program.
Its purpose is to blow the lid off that ceiling of twenty two.
7. We no longer have to keep the generic top-level domain names to twenty-two.
People can use them.
8. For new generic top-level domain names, you can use any word combination of non-Latin characters.
They include Russian, Arabic and Chinese.
9. ICANN officials met in October in Dakar.
It is the capital of Senegal.
10. This marks one of the biggest changes in the Internet’s domain name system.
It has ever occurred.
11. Those are businesses, governments and individuals.
They can apply for new generic domain names
12. One hundred eighty-five thousand dollars is the cost of a new name.
ICANN has determined it.
13. The applicant must have the technical savvy to run an Internet registry.
He wants a new generic domain name.
14. ICANN passed the resolution to help rising economies.
They have limited financial resources.
15. ICANN officials talked about Africa.
It represented less than twelve percent of Internet growth worldwide in the last ten years.
16. But Mr. White says that is slowly beginning to change.
He is an ICANN official.
17. ICANN will approve no more than one thousand new generic top-level domains each year.
It will accept applications from January to April.