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Search Engine Watch July 27, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
New Domain Names Coming Yes, it looks like new top level domain names may finally be coming -- but what they will be, how they will be assigned, and whether they will actually be used remains undecided. So, don't panic.  |
InternetNews October 28, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Domain Apps Progress Through ICANN Judged technically sound, the proposals for .post and .travel enter the negotiation phase.  |
Information Today July 3, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Dot-Mania: ICANN Opens the Domain Door The Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers has expanded the number of generic top level domains only rarely. But by 2Q 2009, adding new dot domains could start expanding rapidly.  |
InternetNews March 23, 2004 Jim Wagner |
.Mobi's Case For Mobile Domains Industry consortium explains plan to push a mobile-centric domain extension apart from .com and .net.  |
InternetNews February 26, 2010 |
Domain Name Registrations Kept Growing in 2009 There are now over 192 million domain name registrations as year-over-year growth continues despite the recession.  |
InternetNews December 5, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
Of China, Growth and TLDs China's .cn moves up the ladder to become the second most popular TLD.  |
CFO February 1, 2009 Vincent Ryan |
Masters of Their Domains? Companies soon may be able to create their own top-level domains -- like ".ibm" -- but the costs of making the switch are raising some eyebrows.  |
InternetNews May 19, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Sir Tim: 'No New TLDs Please' The man credited with creating the World Wide Web is not too keen on some domain name ideas, especially for wireless devices.  |
Reason December 2001 Rhys Southan |
Web Playgrounds Some congressmen have decided that one top-level domain rejected by ICANN should is a moral (or at least political) imperative: .kids...  |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2002 Greg R. Notess |
The Top-Level Domain Game Had some omniscient librarians been involved, they certainly would have come up with sensible group of top-level domains which could be divided fairly among the throngs of today's and tomorrow's Internet users. Such an event never happened...  |
InternetNews October 28, 2005 Jim Wagner |
ICANN's Deal Could Prove Costly ICANN's proposed agreement with VeriSign could result in fee hikes that will likely get passed to .com domain owners.  |
InternetNews September 24, 2010 |
Verisign Details Rising Demand for Domain Names The total number of domain registrations tops 196 million, but why a drop off in China?  |
InternetNews December 22, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Registries Vie for .Net Domain VeriSign's .net contract is almost up. Who will win the registry race to take it over?  |
InternetNews January 18, 2005 Jim Wagner |
.Net Bids to Close at Midnight The deadline to assume management of one of the Internet's oldest properties looms for registries.  |
InternetNews November 23, 2010 |
ICANN to Permit Registrars, Registries to Merge With the longstanding policy of separation between the registries that oversee top-level domains and the registrars that issue domain names about to end, where is the industry left?  |
InternetNews May 27, 2011 |
Internet Domain Names Top 209.8 Million The base of Internet domain names grew by 7.9 percent in the first quarter of 2011.  |
InternetNews October 12, 2009 |
Registry / Registrar: Does Separation matter? Should domain registries also be allowed to be their own registrars and sell domains? It's an old practice that might soon be coming back.  |
InternetNews March 10, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Nokia, Microsoft Want Mobile TLD A coalition that includes Nokia and Microsoft wants to create an exclusive domain name extension for Web pages catering to mobile communications.  |
PC Magazine August 29, 2007 Brian Heater |
Eminent Domains Businesses seek the country codes of far-off places for their Web domains.  |
CRM December 19, 2012 Judith Aquino |
ICANN Reveals Results of Domain Name Auction New domain names like .food, .energy, .city, and others could be launched next year. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet's addressing system, is leading the expansion.  |
InternetNews July 19, 2004 Jim Wagner |
ICANN Moves Toward Self-Rule Executives say they have completed nearly one-third of the requirements necessary to break off from the Department of Commerce and self-govern.  |
PC Magazine June 26, 2008 Mark Hachman |
Update: ICANN Approves Huge Domains Expansion The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is expected to approve a plan Thursday that would broadly expand the number of top-level domains (TLDs), that, for now, have been restricted to a few choice designations.  |
InternetNews June 23, 2010 |
.Org the First TLD Added to the DNSSEC The first major top-level domain to be secured with DNSSEC is the .Org domain, but the process of securing all domains isn't done yet.  |
InternetNews June 11, 2010 |
China Falling Behind in Domain Registrations As demand for domains continues to grow, China, the largest market in the world by numbers, finds itself losing ground to other domains.  |
InternetNews December 8, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
ICANN Gives Asia Its Dot In a move reflecting the growing Asian flavor of the Internet, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers yesterday approved the first top-level domain registry based in the Asia-Pacific region.  |
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Jim Wagner |
ICANN to Negotiate With .Jobs, .Mobi Owners Officials at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced the start of negotiations with two more sponsored top-level domains Monday.  |
Searcher February 2001 Wallace Koehler |
ICANN and the New 'Magnificent Seven' A look at the 7 new top level domains and how they were chosen.  |
Search Engine Watch November 12, 2003 George Plosker |
Who Runs the .gov and .edu Domains? Unlike most other top-level domains, .gov and .edu are restricted to government and educational institutions. Who's in charge of these protected domains?  |
InternetNews June 28, 2010 |
ICANN OKs Chinese-Language, .XXX Domains ICANN continues work to expand domain names to non-Latin languages, puts controversial .xxx domain on the fast track for approval.  |
InternetNews June 5, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner |
Is the Domain Name Biz Recession Proof? As the total number of domain names reaches 183 million, can China's .cn surpass .com?  |
InternetNews January 28, 2005 Jim Wagner |
The .Net Race Is On Between now and March, .net manager hopefuls will have to convince a review board -- and the world -- that they are the best choice for the domain.  |
InternetNews June 10, 2005 Jim Wagner |
VeriSign Gets Go-Ahead on .net The registry operator gets another six years to manage the third-largest domain space on the Internet.  |
InternetNews October 14, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Registrars End Budget Holdout A slight change in the fee structure for registrars was just enough to ratify Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number's $15.8 million budget measures.  |
PC Magazine March 7, 2008 |
A Month Of Tasting Tasting, the quasi-legal act of registering a domain name for a few days to see whether it can boost revenues, is a tremendous problem for ICANN.  |
InternetNews March 25, 2005 Jim Wagner |
ICANN Approves .eu Domain Space The European Union gets a domain name space of its own after ICANN's board of directors approval.  |
Entrepreneur July 2002 Mike Hogan |
The Pull for Pull ICANN is tightening its grip on uncontested control over Internet domains.  |
InternetNews October 25, 2005 Jim Wagner |
VeriSign, ICANN Settle Dispute VeriSign reached an agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers over a lawsuit filed by the company in 2004.  |
InternetNews June 2, 2005 Jim Wagner |
.xxx Domain Gets ICANN Nod The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will begin technical and commercial negotiations with ICM Registry to launch .xxx.  |
InternetNews July 11, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Domains Gone Mobile The mobile top-level domain initiative got the nod and a 10-year contract from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to move forward with the .mobi TLD  |
InternetNews June 8, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
A Name For All Domains Updated VeriSign reports more domain name registrations and more active names than during the tech bubble.  |
InternetNews June 20, 2011 |
ICANN Expands Domain Names New generic Top Level Domains plan is approved, enabling anything to potentially become a TLD.  |
InternetNews March 30, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
ICANN Again Nixes .xxx Domain ICANN votes against .xxx election, but one board member says the group is bowing to government pressure in the process.  |
InternetNews December 6, 2005 Jim Wagner |
ICANN's Small Step Toward .Asia ICANN's board of directors gave a a provisional thumbs-up for .asia, but is saving the final word on .xxx and its proposed .com agreement for another day.  |
InternetNews May 11, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
ICANN Bans Adult TLD The group votes down .xxx top level domain.  |
InternetNews October 1, 2009 |
ICANN's Affirmation Agreement Wins Praise Hailed by many in the Internet community, the split of ICANN from the U.S. government could also be one huge "monkey wrench."  |
InternetNews November 11, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner |
Is Your Domain Locked Down? ICANN's new domain transfer policy about to take effect has registrars raising questions about whether it will actually settle domain 'slamming' disputes.  |
InternetNews March 31, 2004 Jim Wagner |
ICANN Reports On WHOIS Inaccuracies In the past 18 months, the Internet governance organization has received complaints on 16,045 different domain names.  |
PC Magazine March 7, 2008 Larry Seltzer |
Is Network Solutions Front Running? Domain-name buying has lost its innocence.  |
InternetNews March 14, 2011 |
ICANN To Vote on .XXX Domain After years of delay, the domain oversight board may finally vote on an adult-only domain, amid larger agenda items pertaining to generic top level domains.  |
Salon.com March 14, 2001 Damien Cave |
A Web of Babel Former ICANN chairwoman Esther Dyson says a new domain name system threatens to disrupt the Internet...  |