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ICANN to Expand Top Level Internet Domains Despite Critics
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published January 05, 2012
The group will begin accepting applications for new top-level domains January 12.
Tags: ICANN, Domain
Lawmakers, FTC Want ICANN to Delay New Domain Plan
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published December 23, 2011
Members of Congress and the FTC see potential problems with the plan to open up more generic top-level domains.
Tags: ICANN, Domain
Verisign Renews .NET
By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published July 05, 2011
ICANN gives Verisign a vote of confidence and renews contract to manage .NET for another 6 years.
Tags: .NET, VeriSign, ICANN
ICANN Moves Into IPv6 Era
By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published February 04, 2011
With the last block of IPv4 addresses exhausted, the Internet transitions into a new era.
Tags: networking, Internet, ICANN, IPv6, IPv4
First Internationalized Domain Names Near Completion
By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published January 21, 2010
Egypt, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have now passed a key milestone on their way to becoming the first countries with domain names in their own non-Latin languages.
Tags: Web, ICANN, TLD, domain names, IDN
Web Domain Addresses to Use World Languages
By - Reuters | Article Published October 30, 2009
Internet URLs will no longer be strictly in the Latin alphabet used by English speakers, a move that should increase global Web use.
Tags: IT, government, media, ICANN
Facebook Usernames: Do You Have Yours?
By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published June 15, 2009
A half million users grabbed personalized names on Facebook within the first 15 minutes the new offering was available.
Tags: Facebook, search, ICANN
Net Domain Biz Up Despite Downturn
By Sean Michael Kerner | Article Published May 10, 2009
Plenty of tech vendors are complaining, but not Internet domain registrars.
Tags: authentication, Firefox, marketing, Mozilla, ICANN