ICANN debates domain gold rush

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...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) through a Twitter feed confirmed that even after opposition from lawmakers and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the internet governing body will go ahead with their...

There are almost 220 million registered domain names on the web, a new report released by VeriSign has revealed. The company informed that the internet grew by 2.3 per cent or 4.9 million domain names in the third quarter of 2011...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been instructed by a group of US law makers to postpone its vision of dishing out new generic top-level domains early next year. According to the concerns...

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...

Japanese electronics maker Canon has become the first company to publicly reveal it will apply to ICANN to run its brand as an internet top-level domain. The company said today that it “has made the official decision to...

Almost two thirds of consumers believe that the opening of the internet's addressing system to a limitless number of domain names will clog the internet with pointless domain names, according to a survey. French domain registrar...

A recent survey has revealed that as many as two-thirds of businesses are simply not aware of the fact that they will be able to employ their own names rather than use standard domain name extensions, including .net, .com, .org,...

A legal expert said that the plans will make brand protection a nightmare. The board of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, backed the move at a meeting in Paris yesterday. Presently, users have a...

Registering and re-registering your domain names will become more expensive as Verisign, which manages the generic top-level domains dot.com and dot.net, increases the price of base registration fees. Registrars such as Godaddy...

The body behind the internet's addressing system, ICANN, could stop any domain name registrar from processing refunds on more than 10% of its domains in any given month in a new bid to stop domain name tasting.Domain name tasting...

A plan to create a pornography-only internet domain has failed. The body in charge of the internet's naming system, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has rejected a bid by British businessman...

A plan to create a pornography-only internet domain has failed. The body in charge of the internet's naming system, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has rejected a bid by British businessman...