ICANN reopens can of porn worms

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has started accepting applications for the controversial .xxx domain names, which will be launched on December 6. Internet registries like Domain.com and ICM...

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, 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...

GoDaddy caused a stir over the weekend after it experimented with using ‘.co’ as the default top level domain.The world’s largest domain registration service has since reverted back to ‘.com’ as the...

Two US Congressmen have launched a privacy inquiry into a recent change to Apple's user terms of service, which require users to agree to the company sharing information about their location.Micro-blogging giant Twitter has...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given initial approval for a .xxx top-level domain for adult websites.ICM, the company behind the campaign for the domain, explained that the introduction of a...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbering is set to approve the .xxx top level domain for adult web sites – a decade after it was first proposed. The move is reckoned to make it easier to separate porn...

A California-based trade body for the porn industry has come out against the proposal to launch a .xxx internet domain. The Free Speech Coalition's executive director, Diane Duke, has written to ICANN to complain that the...

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...

The British man behind the proposed .xxx internet domain believes that the US Government has intervened to thwart his plans. Stuart Lawley is fighting a court battle to retrieve the documents he says would prove his case.Lawley...