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today we're putting ducks on everything I'm Bridget John Kerry and this is you're seen in that update prepare yourself for future well you'll be visiting websites that engine dot app dot store movie Bank doubt Google there could be hundreds of new words that will be typing in our browsers the nonprofit group that manages domain extensions known as I can for short sorting through almost two thousand applications from companies that want to oversee new domain extensions many companies are battling for names dot app is a popular request it got thirteen applications and also in high demand is dot home and dot web Google applied for more than a hundred names including dot lol Wow Amazon it went for phrases like read store and music both the Johnson and Johnson and Google are battling for dot baby and if there's more than one application forward than the two companies will have to duke it out or it'll go to an auction for the highest bidder there are also some controversial ones like dots X dot porn and dot sucks you can really see how dots Lex can be a problem for brands like imagine Apple dot sucks but I can said it will take measures to make sure companies won't be exploited under that domain it will be some time before these extensions get built out and chances are most of them won't care dot-com is king of the domain game you can guarantee over main that way this just gives companies a chance to create a page of the dot-com is taken and it's not like anyone wanted domains with dot biz or dot info or how about that dot movie yeah that was predicted to be the hot extension for mobile friendly websites and then the iPhone came out a few months later and crushed that dream imagine being able to silence the volume on your phone just by waving it over a sticker as you walk into a conference room or how about waving your phone at the entrance to a restaurant to post your location check in on Facebook automatically Samsung is presenting a new twist to NFC technology used in mobile payments and Samsung calls them tech tiles the programmable stickers would activate different commands for phones that have NFC chips if this becomes popular then you can also expect things like Google Wallet to be more widely used if you've ever dreamed to be a graffiti artist but you didn't like the whole breaking along going to jail factor well you might like an app called stick to it's a virtual graffiti app that uses augmented reality to snap a photo of anything and add text draw or put in stickers upload it and other users can see what other people have created in that same space it's available on iOS and Android that your tech news update for today for more in the stories in today's show visit cnet-dot-com-slash-loaded OHS in New York I'm Mary