Web-address group offering refunds

NEW YORK — The organization behind a major expansion of Internet address suffixes is offering full refunds to companies and organizations affected by a weeks-long delay in taking proposals.

Each application costs $185,000. Applicants had been allowed to withdraw bids for a partial refund. Now, they can get all their money back as long as they do so before a deadline that hasn’t yet been determined.

Last month, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers abruptly shut down a system for letting companies and organizations propose new suffixes, after it discovered a software glitch that exposed some private data. The data in some cases offered clues about which companies were proposing what suffixes, which was supposed to be confidential.

Up to 1,000 domain name suffixes could be added each year.