ICANN has introduced the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the Internet’s root zone, the central database for the Internet’s Domain Name System, paving the way for possibly 1,400 new ...

Organization that oversees domain names OKs system for non-Latin characters, a move designed to help regions around the world surf using their local languages. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

The agency charged with Internet oversight may give its blessing to single-letter domain names, which have been reserved since 1993. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) ...

Plans to introduce new top-level Internet domains will not force trademark owners to make defensive registrations to protect their brands, according to two reports published by the Internet ...

A recommendation to further expand the Internet namespace comes as the group prepares to evaluate last year's addition of seven new top-level domains. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the Media ...

The organisation that manages the world's most important web address extensions — what goes after the dot in a URL — is to hold a vote on Thursday that could see an entire new generation of URLs made ...

Participants made good progress discussing changes to Internet governance during an ICANN meeting in Puerto Rico that closed on Friday, leaders of the organization said. One topic that leaders worked ...

Two new top-level domains, .jobs and .travel, will soon come to the Internet after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the two domains on Friday. Two new top-level ...

WASHINGTON--He may be a founder of the Internet, but Vinton Cerf was not immune from the wrath of Congress on Thursday, when he was forced to explain the actions of the Internet domain name body he ...

A 30-page Report by the 12-member Emoji Study Group (ESG) of ICANN’s Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (CCNSO) has reiterated a number of problematic issues that were highlighted in a ...

BEIJING — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the Internet Domain Name System, this week announced plans to test a system of internationalized domain names. ICANN ...

The most famous domains on the Web are getting some dot-competition. The URLs we have typed into our browsers since we first connected to the Internet - .com, .net, .org - could soon be joined by ...