ICANN has approved XXX as a top-level domain. The adult entertainment industry will soon have its own glaringly obvious domain, but unfortunately that doesn’t necessarily mean that dot-COM domains ...

The first domain suffixes especially created for mobile devices became available on Monday, but some critics say a new domain naming plan is unnecessary. On Monday, Mobile Top Level Domain, the ...

WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES, June 7, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In an era where one might assume the frenzy over securing top-level internet domain names has ended ...

It seems that the Internet is finally going to get some new top-level domains. It is going to expand beyond dot-com, dot-net, dot-org and the few other now-familiar extensions with two new ones: ...

(RFE/RL) -- Today marks the 25th birthday of the "dot com" domain name -- the address that for many people defines the Internet. On March 15, 1985, a U.S. computer maker called Symbolics registered ...

Charities can now register websites under a new digital domain: dot-giving. The Public Interest Registry — the nonprofit that operates the popular dot-org domain — created the new domain with the goal ...

Nearly every startup founder has undergone a torturous process that invariably includes whiteboards, hours of late-night bantering sessions, and days spent typing potential domain names into a browser ...

ICANN, the company that assigns what are called domain names for the Web is making a big change and rolling out a program to dramatically increase the number and kind of names available. However, that ...

The dot-com crash that saw hundreds of start-up businesses on the Internet close up shop in 1998 and 1999 is not discouraging new Net entrepreneurs. A record number of domain name sales in 2004 shows ...

Dot-ua is a domain in search of a master. The country code for Ukraine has been around since 1992, soon after the former Soviet republic gained its independence. But the company that registered it is ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The first ...