.Meme Is the Latest Top-Level Domain

Internet memes are ubiquitous enough that they now have their own top-level internet domain.

Google today announced that consumers and businesses can start hosting websites using the .meme domain, which the company originally filed to operate a decade ago.

Not surprisingly, Google says the new domain is ideal for websites that focus on cataloging internet memes. For example, the meme-indexing site Know Your Meme is using the new domain to host knowyour.meme.

Meanwhile, GIF provider Tenor is using the domain to host find.meme and create.meme. Google adds that Grumpy Cat lives on via grumpycat.meme.

(Credit: grumpycat.meme)

The search giant says the .meme domain is now available for use through an early access program, which requires “an additional one-time fee.” This fee will decrease…