Here's a novel way to ensure that porn spammers don't create websites based around your products; own all of the pervy variant domain names up yourself. That seems to be the logic behind a recent complaint that ended with Apple taking ownership of seven iPhone-related domains, four of which are clearly not safe for work from their names alone.
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.
Hello Wednesday and welcome to a new Internet, where domain names with a proper top-level dot-XXX suffix will take you by the hand and lead you, well, somewhere they used to lead you with dot-nets and coms. No, I don’t mean a bunch of websites dedicated to the “kiss” half of “hugs and kisses,” or [...]
Evan Williams, the man (seen above) who brought us Blogger and Twitter, and therefore reasonably described as a dude who knows where his internet towel is, has something to say on the subject of domain names: they really don’t matter any more.
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.
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.
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.
The US Senate Judiciary Committee has passed controversial new legislation to fight internet piracy that will allow the Justice Department to shut down domain names of sites that, in their view, enable piracy. The legislation was opposed by many, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amazon.com and Google, all of whom felt that the ability to [...]
Got way too much money burning a hole in your pocket? Sex.com is back on the auctioning block, officially being brokered by domain giant Sedo. Originally registered in 1994, the Sex.com domain name was put up for sale back in March of this year and fetched a million bucks just place a bid.
Dot-com, you’ve grown up so fast! Seems like only yesterday you were just an innocent top-level domain running around the kitchen in your diapers. We knew you’d turn into something special, though, no doubt about it.
