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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22. Internet address names will end with almost any word and be in any language. Icann will begin taking applications next year, with corporations and cities expected to be among the first. "Icann has opened the internet's addressing system to the limitless possibilities of the human imagination," said Rod Beckstrom, president and chief executive officer for Icann. "No one can predict where this historic decision will take us." There will be several hundred new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), which could include such addresses as .google, .coke, or even .BBC. There are currently 22 gTLDs, as well as about 250 country-level domain names such as .uk or .de. Costly process It will cost $185,000 (£114,000) to apply for the suffixes, and companies would need to show they have a legitimate claim to the name they are buying. Analysts say it is a price that global giants might be willing to pay - in order to maximise their internet presence. The money will be used to cover costs incurred by Icann in developing the new gTLDs and employing experts to scrutinise the many thousands of expected applications. A portion will be set-aside to deal with potential legal actions, raised by parties who fail to get the domains they want. The vote completes a six-year negotiation process and is the biggest change to the system since .com was first introduced 26 years ago. Icann said it was beginning a global communications programme to raise awareness of the new domain names. Applications will start on 12 January. High standards Companies and organisations seeking one of the new gTLDs will have to meet high technical standards, according to Bruce Tonkin, chief strategy officer at Melbourne IT, a domain registry service. "You need IT robustness and you need intellectual property protections beyond what is available in the dot com space. "You have to have 24/7 abuse team. You have to have mechanisms where a trademark holder has first right to get their name," he said. The higher standards, said Mr Tonkin, meant the application process would be extremely rigorous. "Using a real estate analogy, it would be roughly the equivalent of getting approval to build a sky scraper. "There's roughly 50 questions, roughly 2-3 pages per question. Icann will then use experts in each field to evaluate them. "The concern that some people have is that the standards of these buildings will be so high, that they will never get built. It will be too expensive," he said.
A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.

The cover has been praised as a win for body positivity - with people sharing the importance of seeing a "visibly fat woman" on the front of a fashion mag. Tess, who's a UK size 26, says she cried when asked to be on the cover. "A magazine like that has never put someone like me, an actual fat body, on the cover of a magazine," she told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire. "To be on a glossy where you can actually see my body, they haven't altered how I look, makes me really, really proud. "It not only meant a lot to me, but the work that I'm doing, which would therefore impact millions of bodies that look like mine." The 33-year-old also wrote on Instagram: "If I saw a body like mine on this magazine when I was a young girl, it would have changed my life." Many people have praised the cover on Twitter. However, there's some that argue it's encouraging "unhealthy bodies". "Of course they're mad that I'm fat, but that's every day of my life," Tess said in response to the criticism. "The reality is I've never once told my followers or anyone to gain weight. "I'm saying that I love myself and because that happens to be coming from a fat body and a bigger body like mine, people then equate it saying 'I'm promoting obesity and that I'm unhealthy'. "Even if it was what I do with my body it's no-one's business." A true representation of plus-sized women? The fact Tess is a size 26 can be seen as significant. Some brands have been criticised recently by fashion bloggers who claim "plus-sized women are being erased from the very movement they created". In an Instagram post, fashion influencer Sophie Tassew said a lot of the women used for plus-sized campaigns simply had "flat stomachs and big butts". It's something blogger Stephanie Yeboah also claims is an issue. She says she's noticed over the past few years that "the only models brands seem to use to promote plus-sized clothing are women who are between size 12 and 16, who often have a flat tummy, with big boobs and big bums". "They want our money, yet they refuse to hire somebody that represents us," she told Newsbeat. "It's not the case of this being the model's fault - the fault lies with casting agents and what they consider to be plus-sized." In the last few years several brands have expanded their plus-sized range and have booked models such as Felicity Hayward. "I am a plus-sized model, I have a big bum and big boobs but I also have a belly and big hips," she said. She's worked on campaigns for brands such as Missguided, Make Your Mark and L'Oreal Elvive. "Women come in all different shapes and sizes and they should be represented," she added. "There are issues in the industry where brands will use a size 14 girl and then they put padding on her - that is something I have a problem with. "You should be using real bodies and not bodies that have been padded with fabric to create an unrealistic body ideal." Felicity says there are brands that do use plus-sized models without airbrushing them. "My belly is shown in campaigns and I have done a lot of campaigns that are unedited." Now that a model of Tess' body type has graced the cover of a major fashion magazine, Stephanie hopes others will follow suit. "I think it's an amazing feat that for the very first time, we see a plus-sized woman grace the cover of a mainstream magazine in a full frame photo wearing a form-fitting outfit," she says. "It's definitely something that plus-sized women have needed for the longest time and marks the first step in what I hope to be a more diverse casting in regards to body shapes and ethnicities. "Hopefully other magazines take notice and begin to react accordingly." Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.
US plus-sized model Tess Holliday is the star of Cosmopolitan's latest issue.

By Ben KingEconomics reporter, BBC News Oil companies and service providers are cutting staff and investment to save money. Robin Allan, chairman of the independent explorers' association Brindex, told the BBC that the industry was "close to collapse". Almost no new projects in the North Sea are profitable with oil below $60 a barrel, he claims. 'Everyone is retreating' "It's almost impossible to make money at these oil prices", Mr Allan, who is a director of Premier Oil in addition to chairing Brindex, told the BBC. "It's a huge crisis." "This has happened before, and the industry adapts, but the adaptation is one of slashing people, slashing projects and reducing costs wherever possible, and that's painful for our staff, painful for companies and painful for the country. "It's close to collapse. In terms of new investments - there will be none, everyone is retreating, people are being laid off at most companies this week and in the coming weeks. Budgets for 2015 are being cut by everyone." Mr Allan said many of the job cuts across the industry would not have been publicly announced. Oil workers are often employed as contractors, which are easier for employers to cut. His remarks echo comments made by the veteran oil man and government adviser Sir Ian Wood, who last week predicted a wave of job losses in the North Sea over the next 18 months. Decline The US-based oil giant ConocoPhillips is cutting 230 out of 1,650 jobs in the UK. This month it announced a 20% reduction in its worldwide capital expenditure budget, in response to falling oil prices. Other big oil firms are expected to make similar cuts to their drilling and exploration budgets. Research from the investment bank Goldman Sachs predicted that they would need to cut capital expenditure by 30% to restore their profitability at current prices. Service providers to the industry have also been hit. Texas-based oilfield services company Schlumberger cut back its UK-based fleet of geological survey ships in December, taking an $800m loss and cutting an unspecified number of jobs. On Wednesday Aberdeen-based Wood Group announced a pay freeze for staff, and cut rates for its contractors. Apache, one of the North Sea's biggest producers, has followed suit and will impose a 10 percent reduction on its contractors' wages from January 1st. Investment record The industry trade body, Oil and Gas UK, said: "While Oil & Gas UK cannot comment on the commercial decisions, and individual opinions, of its members, the industry trade body recognises that the falling oil price is affecting activity across the UK Continental Shelf and companies are having to take hard decisions in light of this challenging business environment." UK oil and gas production has been in decline since 1999 - though the rate of decline slowed in 2013, a year which saw the highest level of investment on record. The industry was hoping to see continued high levels of investment, stemming the inevitable decline of production as North Sea's resources are used up. But falling oil prices have put that in doubt. However, the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: "The recent sharp reductions in oil prices are very challenging for companies active in the North Sea. We have seen very little evidence of new projects being cancelled or deferred in reaction to lower oil prices." Analysis By Douglas Fraser, BBC Scotland Business and Economy Editor To avoid the oil investment boom turning into a bust by the dramatic fall in the price of Brent crude, firms in the industry are having to go for unusual measures. While lower energy costs help drivers and most of the UK economy, it is a concern for north-east Scotland and beyond that investment plans are being shelved. Goldman Sachs has suggested $930bn of projects, worldwide, could fail to get the go-ahead next year. And the North Sea is seen as one of the higher-cost, lower-return regions for investment. In mature fields, there is the prospect of closure being brought forward. And as a lot of production ceases to make money below $80 barrel (it's now in the region of $63), North Sea producers and those in their supply chain now face pressure to cut costs sharply. Those costs have been rising steeply in recent years. And measured per barrel of production, they've been rising at an alarming rate. The oil price fall has only intensified the pressure to get them under control. The oil industry is more used than most to having to flex in this way. When the oil price is high and investment strong, the cost of assets such as drilling rigs goes up sharply. And this is also an industry which relies heavily on individual contractor work, giving it flexibility on contracts and on pay, and often works best for those workers too.

The UK's oil industry is in "crisis" as prices drop, a senior industry leader has told the BBC.

