Internet domains no longer only English

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...

The company behind .xxx has ramped up the pressure on ICANN to approve its application for a porn-only internet domain. ICM Registry chairman Stuart Lawley sent a stiff letter to his counterpart at ICANN this weekend, saying...

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...

ICANN is expected to take a big step towards a massive liberalisation of the top-level domain name system, opening the doors to hundreds of competitors to .com, later this week. The globe-trotting group today kicked off its...

Over three quarters of domain name registrants fail to hand over enough personal information to satisfy ICANN's strict requirements, according to recent research. A sample study of 1,419 domains in the global Whois database...

Attendees are pulling out of a key Internet policy conference after suicide bomb threats were made against the venue.  Market-leading domain name firm Go Daddy this week vowed to keep its troops at home, rather than ...

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...

The organisation responsible for the internet's addresses says that it has almost completely put a halt to domain name tasting, a practice engaged in by cybersquatters. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...

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,...

The body responsible for controlling addresses on the internet has said that a plan to allow a potentially limitless number of domains has been delayed. Applications to use any word as a domain will not be taken until early 2010...

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...

The body that regulates the structure of the internet is investigating whether unscrupulous operators are stealing domain name ideas from customers.The Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) of ICANN (the Internet...