NEW YORK — You're probably familiar with ".com" and ".org." How about ".oops"? A technical glitch forced the abrupt shutdown of a system for le...
Reuters | Posted 05.23.2012
* US government gives ICANN only temporary contract extension * Conflict of interest concerns around new domain programme ...
Edward J. Black | Posted 05.09.2012
Some of the lessons learned from the dangers of legislation like SOPA should be the need for forbearance and a well-researched, multi-stakeholder derived policy to avoid unintended consequences.
HuffingtonPost.com | Janean Chun | Posted 01.11.2012
It could be the end of the World Wide Web as we know it: After rolling out just 22 top-level domains in the past 10 years, Internet Corporation for As...
Reuters | Posted 03.05.2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ICANN, an independent body responsible for organizing the Internet, plans to press ahead with plans to expand the number of pos...
Reuters | Posted 02.12.2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and 26 other international organizations are pressing the keepers of the In...
Brett Greene | Posted 08.22.2011
In theory, the availability of these new URL endings means that you'll type in 'Ford.car' instead of 'Ford.com'... or will you? It will take a lot of retraining to get us to type in anything besides dot com in a web browser.
HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 08.21.2011
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced on Monday one of the most significant changes to Internet naming since "dot com" was...
Posted 08.20.2011
This week ICANN, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, aka the Wizard of Oz of the web, approved the creation of generic top-level ...
AP | ALEX KENNEDY | Posted 08.20.2011
SINGAPORE — A quarter-century after the creation of ".com," the agency that assigns Internet addresses is loosening its rules and allowing suffi...
AP | By JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 08.17.2011
WASHINGTON -- Coming soon to the Internet: website addresses that end in ".bank," ".Vegas" and ".Canon." The organization that oversees the Internet ...
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011
As the web gears up to introduce new domains, those proposing a ".gay" domain are getting ready to face opposition. In an interview with CNET, Sco...
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011
Though everyone knows that different websites have different domain names, not everyone knows exactly where these domain names come from, or who's in ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011
A new online job network is on the scene, with the kind of webwide reach that has older job recruiting sites in a tizzy. The huge new job network-...
Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 05.25.2011
Long before I knew what and who ICM Registry and Stuart Lawley were, I had decided that, although .XXX sounds great upon first hearing, it doesn't sound good for very long once the many real world implications are considered.
Randy Whattoff | Posted 05.25.2011
There are a number of ways that trademark owners deal with cybersquatters. Rachael Ray recently instituted an UDNRP arbitration proceeding against an Indian company that had registered www.rachelray.com (note the missing "a").
AP | KELLY OLSEN | Posted 05.25.2011
SEOUL, South Korea — The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not ...
AP | Tarek El-Tablawy | Posted 05.25.2011
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) -- Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a c...
Mark A. Shiffrin and Avi Silberschatz | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced that the United States has agreed to give up oversight of the ICANN, a non-profit organization loosely regulates the protocols of the Internet.
Susan Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011
The decision to allow Web addresses to be written completely in non-Latin alphabets isn't just a huge deal for most of Asia, the Middle East and wide swaths of the rest of the world. It's a huge deal for Americans.
AP | KELLY OLSEN | Posted 05.25.2011
SEOUL, South Korea ? The Internet is set to undergo one of the biggest changes in its four-decade history with the expected approval this week of inte...
GlobalPost | Posted 05.25.2011
It is invisible to the millions of people who use the World Wide Web, yet it helps hold the Internet together. Type in any address in your browser's ...
ABC News | Russell Goldman | Posted 05.25.2011
Dot-com is so 1990s. The group that oversees the naming of Internet domains approved a measure today that will broadly expand what words can follow th...
AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 04.13.2012