Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to ban the use of www in domain names as recent studies show that office productivity is affected by workers having to type www when surfing a website.

Requiring employees to type ‘WWW’ cost companies over $25 billion last year,” said ICANN representative Emil Scharnsdorf. “The average Internet surfer takes two seconds to type ‘www’ and visits 125 sites a day, add in typos like “qqq” and “ww,” then wave your hands over your head three times and you’re at $25 billion

Web sites not following the rules will face fines of $10,000 or confiscation of their sites by ICANN.

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