Scratch the age-old ideal of putting your name in lights. Jump into this century and do it one better — set your name as a unique domain.

During a Monday meeting in Singapore, Internet domain name overlord ICANN approved one of the most sweeping changes ever to web addresses — the vast expansion of generic top-level domains (gTLDs).

To translate the geekspeak, your .com, .org, .gov, .net, edu, .mil, and .xxx (and the like) worldwide web is about to be turned upside down by customization.

"ICANN has opened the Internet's naming system to unleash the global human imagination. Today's decision respects the rights of groups to create new Top Level Domains in any language or script," Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of ICANN, said in a written statement.

Simply put, the sky's the limit as to what follows that dot in a domain.

Do you fancy being the proud owner of https://www.cheese.yumyumyum? Does https://www.monkeysareawesome.bananas sound like a website come true? ICANN's decision not only makes this likely, but makes it entirely feasible.

For a price, of course.

The ability to do it doesn't mean it'll be cheap. You'll need to fork over a $185,000 evaluation fee — including $5,000 right off the bat — to make your .yumyumyum case.

Lest you think only the richest will prevail, approval isn't guaranteed. ICANN will reserve the right to reject your Internet hopes and dreams, as only 1,000 domains maximum will be released yearly.

Applications for new gTLDs will be accepted starting in January 2012 and running through April 2012. Will you be saving your pennies to own your own one-of-a-kind domain?