Registry Set To Seek Permission To Use XXX Domains

Sony has launched new NFC based SmartTags to go with the new Android based smartphones that it launched during the CES 2012. The company said that users will be able to customise the SmartTags with their own preferences and...

ICANN, the international organisation in charge of domain names has begun selling new domain suffixes, potentially allowing for a wide variety of URL end tags like .web, .porn, .coke etc. The interesting part is that companies...

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...

Even after legal efforts are being made to stop the sale of domain names ending with .XXX, internet registries have opened them up for public sale. During the restricted sale period around 100,000 addresses have been bought and...

The majority of people in Wales believe the country should get its own domain name, a new survey has found. According to an article on BBC News, a survey of businesses and web users in Wales informed that they would...

Domain registry firm Nominet has conducted a study of Welsh businesses and customers, asking if they felt the country should have its own domain names: .wales and .cymru. Of the 1,003 indivuals polled, there was much support for...

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...

Google Inc., the company behind the Google search engine, had lodged a complaint with the US National Arbitration Forum against the domain name Groovle.com, which is owned by Canada-based 207 Media, on November 6th. But now, it...

The United Nations Internet Governance Forum, which is being hosted by Egypt at the Sharm el-Sheikh resort in Cairo, will see the launch of world’s first Arabic internet domain which has been developed by the country. The...

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...

ICANN is reviewing whether or not people have enough opportunity to reclaim domain names that they have allowed to expire. A committee of the domain name administration body has said that current rules do not work. The Internet...

An ICANN study of more than 600 domain name registrations has found no evidence of front-running, the deceptive name registration process that has long been suspected but not proved by the domain name community. Some people who...

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 Radical transformation in the way we use the internet could be at our doorsteps, as Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given a green signal to bring upon customizations of web-addresses. Initially...