61.   Once granted the right to create a new top-level domain name, a company can collect annual fees from anyone registering a Web site within it.

62.   One major question critics raise about the new domains is whether they are needed.

63.   Problems for .biz, the other new Internet domain, arose from using a random drawing to determine who gets an address when more than one applicant requests it.

64.   Rod Berman, an attorney in Los Angeles who represents firms in online matters, said only a minority of his clients are interested in the new domains.

65.   Science and technology greatly influence patenting trends, often creating whole new patent domains.

66.   So before ICANN creates new domains, trademark-owners argue, all the names in existing domains should first be used.

67.   Still, he said, the new domains will create new headaches for some companies that have just come to terms with cybersquatters in the older domains.

68.   That decision has resulted in a rush of new domain name registrations using obscene words.

69.   The addition of new domains still requires the approval of the Commerce Department.

70.   The four new domains would include those that are open to anyone, others that are for specialized businesses, some for noncommercial interests and others for personal use.