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 ...

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 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced its plans to fast track the development of country-coded top level domains (ccTLDs) and local language scripting at the ...

The Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the regulatory body that oversees Internet domain names, voted Monday to allow new domain names such as .red and .blue as alternatives ...

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) ...

Starting in mid-November, countries and territories will be able to apply to show domain names in their native language, a major technical tweak to the Internet designed to increase language ...

ICANN's IDN initiative, which has been in the works for several years, was presented Monday at the ICANN board meeting in Seoul, Korea, this week. The proposed launch date for the IDN ccTLD ...

Participants made good progress discussing changes to Internet governance during an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting in Puerto Rico that closed on Friday, leaders of ...

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 ...

ICANN has just made a decision that goes beyond allowing .xxx to be a top level domain; they’re allowing all words to be top level domains. That means you’re going to see domains like fuck.shit, ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will speed development of country-coded top-level domains and local-language scripting, the group announced Wednesday at the Internet Governance ...

The 15-member board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), meeting in Seoul, South Korea, voted unanimously Friday to allow scripts other than Latin characters in domain ...