Starting from Tuesday, Istanbul, as well as being Turkey's largest city, will also have its own online presence as well.
Millions of people will be able to buy a new website domain name extension ".ist" or ".istanbul."
The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality said the web address suffixes could now be bought online on a first come, first served basis.
Up to now, there was a pre-request period that companies or people had to endure plus a sale by auction if more than one person wanted the same domain name.
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