A variety of suffixes, including .clothing and .plumbing, will go up for sale in January
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With Four New Domain Names, the Internet Goes Even More Multilingual
Additional domains in Arabic, Cyrillic and Chinese scripts unveiled
FTC to ICANN: New Domain Suffixes Will ‘Undermine’ the Internet
If the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has its way, .xxx domains are just the beginning: Starting January 12, organizations will be able to apply for new domain suffixes that include almost any word or phrase …
Verisign Seeks Authority to Shut Down Websites Without Court Orders
Verisign, the company that manages all .com and .net domain registrations, is seeking the authority to cancel the registrations of “non-legitimate abusive sites” when asked by governments—with or without a court order.
Law enforcement in the U.S. have recently begun using domain name seizures to shut down sites that allegedly …
Custom Domain Suffixes Are Coming: Here’s What You Need to Know
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the use of new “top-level domains,” which we’ll start seeing next year. So instead of using .com, .net or .org at the end of websites, businesses (and well-heeled individuals) will be able to create their own “.whatever” suffixes.
If I had $185,000 and wanted …
Veteran Hacker Hired to Keep an Eye On Every Internet Address
Jeff Moss, the hacker better known as “The Dark Tangent,” has been named Vice President and Chief Security Officer of ICANN, the non-profit corporation that manages the Internet’s names and numbering infrastructure. He is the founder of DEF CON, the world’s largest conference for hackers, as well as the Black Hat security …
Are You Ready for .XXX Action?
Well, it seems that the moment is upon us. That much dreaded or dreamed of day — you choose which, we won’t judge — when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approves the use of dot.XXX as a top-level domain.
ICANN junkies and readers of Techland know that ICANN is a non-profit California corporation that …
ICANN vs. the World
A rose by any other name may smell just as sweet, but if that name is an Internet top-level domain name, world governments may beg to differ.
The “.com” at the end of TIME.com is known as a top-level domain—or TLD—and you may be aware of others, including .net, .org, .edu, and even .ly for Libya. While there are over a hundred …
Want a Custom Domain Suffix? Prepare to Shell Out At Least $185,000
As soon as 2012, the way we navigate the Web could be an entirely different beast. Top-level domains like .com and .net — which, according to the Washington Post, comprise about “half of the world’s 202 million Internet addresses” — could soon be a thing of the past.
In 2008, the judicious board that makes up the Internet …