Lawmakers are calling for hearings, consumer groups are up in arms, and directors are attacking each other in increasingly nasty ways. Sounds like deja vu for the Internet Corporation for Assigned ...

The body which oversees domain names has listed two measures to increase the number of domains available. There will be an increase in the number of top level domains available, as well as the ...

ICANN will open applications for new top-level domains in April 2026. The next round is certainly going to be interesting.

STOCKHOLM--The operators of the Internet domain names designated for countries around the world voted Friday to withdraw from a key organization that helps set policies for the group that manages the ...

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 ...

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 ...

ICANN, an independent body responsible for organizing the Internet, plans to press ahead with plans to expand the number of possible website addresses despite criticism from industry and concerns from ...

A day after it took its top-level domain application system offline, ICANN has revealed that a glitch in the system may have allowed certain applicant data to be viewed by other parties. A day after ...

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 ...

This is a bad day for the English language, after ICANN approved non-Latin characters for use in Internet domain names. Having invented the Internet–40 years ago yesterday–the U.S. has given away ...

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 ...