In mid-June, Internet authority ICANN released [3] a list of the web domain suffixes that companies across the globe [4] had applied to own. Google was among the several companies that put in requests for vanity domain names, registering 101 of the 1,930 applications [5], each costing $185,000. But three of Google's requests may be rejected outright, The Register [6] reasons, because of stipulations in the ICANN handbook that Google appears to have overlooked. The ICANN handbook puts certain domain names out of reach--among them are three-letter codes per the ISO 3166. It appears [7] Google has applied for three of those: .and, .are, and .est, which are codes for Andorra, the UAE, and Estonia respectively. 

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