Domain Names

Media Literacy 101: Losing Our Ability to Listen to the World (in English)

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology


Susan Moeller

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.

ICANN Domain Name Overseer Pressured To Loosen US Ties

GlobalPost | Posted 09.03.2009 | World


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 ...

Most Expensive Domain Names

ABC News | Ki Mae Heussner | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business


How much is the word "toys" worth on the Internet? Hundreds? Thousands? Try millions of dollars....

Dot-Sex Could Be The New Dot-Com

ABC News | Russell Goldman | Posted 07.04.2008 | Business


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...

Republican National Committee Buying Domain Names Related To Clinton, Obama

New York Times | Kitty Bennett | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Cannotrustclinton.com? clintonisbad.com? At least 25 domain names related to Hillary Rodham Clinton have links to the Republican National Committee: t...

CNN Shells Out $750K For ireport.com Domain

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


CNN just made self-styled "Domain King" Rick Schwartz a happy man. The network paid $750,000 to acquire urls ireport.com and i-report.com from Schwar...

WallStreet.com Doman Name Expected To Fetch $10 Mil At Auction

Financial Times | Ben Fenton | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


Wall Street's value has risen ten-fold in the past eight years, even from the height of the dotcom boom. Or rather, the pulling power of the world's ...