Internet group picks little-known executive as CEO

A businessman with experience in building consensus will be the next CEO of the Internet agency in charge of contentious policies surrounding Internet addresses.

A businessman with experience in building consensus will be the next CEO of the Internet agency in charge of contentious policies surrounding Internet addresses.

Move over .com — it might have to compete with suffixes such as .sex, .app and .fail and after the body in charge of website domain names unveiled some 2,000 applications for new ones Wednesday.

The agency in charge of website addresses has picked June 13 as the day it will reveal proposed new names for online neighborhoods breaking the “.com” mold.