.xxx hangs legal threat over ICANN

Companies who want a personalised web suffix have only today left to ensure that an application reaches the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This means there's not much time left to move for firms,...

Despite of various objections made by US regulators regarding security concerns, ICANN is going ahead with the launch of generic Top Level Domains (gLTDs) and will start accepting applications from Thursday. Businesses will have...

Rod Beckstrom, the chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has announced that he will be leaving the organisation which is responsible for assigning web addresses, in July.In a press...

ICANN, the Internet's Terry McCann has decided to abandon the way domain names have been categorised and registered up to now and allow virtually any sort if website name you than think of. During a 'special' meeting in...

In what could be termed as a potentially ground breaking change for the cyber world, a global Internet body is planning to introduce a range of new website domain suffixes in the days to come.The global body in question is the...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced a new upgrade to internet security, designed to provide a more safer and secure internet environment for the billions of web users around the...

ICANN has approved the creation of domains that only use Chinese characters.The inclusion of Chinese characters in web domain names is a part of ICANN's initiative to create internationalised domain names from languages that...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organisation in charge of domain names globally, has announced the release of the first non-latin domain names. The first so-called internationalised domain names country...

Police proposals to prevent criminals from running shady websites will force anyone applying for a web address to follow security procedures similar to those used by banks. The proposals will require Internet domain name...

The Internet's critical domain name system is under constant attack and could buckle at any time, according to ICANN president Rod Beckstrom. His remarks, made at a meeting between ICANN's board of directors and...

The Internet could soon see its first porn-only domain, after a landmark victory for the company behind “.xxx”. A panel of jurists has ruled that domain name overseer ICANN broke its own rules when it denied would-be...

With an eye on internationalising the character of the web, the governing body for internet names ICANN, has approved the use of non Latin scripts in domain names. In a decision which was unanimously approved by ICANN’s 15...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) seems all set to come up with some handy propositions in a bid to make the internet a more amicable entity to the millions of users across the globe.The global...