A flood of new website addresses with endings like “.book” and “.movie” are set to arrive in coming months. Companies like Amazon and Google are set to control the names but the terms under which they will do so are still undefined. Read more at paidContent »
The process to add hundreds or thousands of new names to existing suffixes like “.com” and “.org” is chugging onward. Here’s an overview of when we’ll see them and what it means for brand owners. Read more at paidContent »
The United Nations may not be trying to take over the internet, but its telecom arm is discussing proposals that could seriously threaten the openness of the network, according to people like Vint Cerf — and could also change the way we pay for it. Read more »
Google and Amazon have applied for dozens of new top-level domains — including .blog and .book, as well as .search and .cloud — and many of these will be for the exclusive use of the two companies, which critics say is bad for the web. Read more »
Do we really need addresses that end in .beer or .movie or .pizza? ICANN seems to think that we do — the agency that controls the domain system says it wants to increase competition, but it seems more likely to cause unnecessary chaos and upheaval. Read more »
There is hoopla today over the hundreds of new names like “.baby” that could soon “.com” and “.org” as fixtures of the internet. Here’s a Q&A: Read more »
A list released today reveals that there are nearly 2,000 applications for new internet names like “.baby” and “.love.” Book giant Amazon has applied to control dozens of the new names and is in competition for several of them including “.app” and “.cloud” Read more at paidContent »
ICANN, the organization that assigns names for websites, will unveil hundreds of new top level domains on June 13 that join familiar suffixes like “.com” or “.org” It appears that some of the names will be run by Google. Read more at paidContent »
After botching the registration process for hundreds of new top level domain names, ICANN has pushed back its “big reveal” date on which it will unveil “.rugby” and others. Read more at paidContent »
(This post has been updated with New York City’s response)
Residents of the Big Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) learned this week that their city could… Read more at paidContent »
It’s a wonder they pulled this off. An obscure agency and a number of its former officials are about to get rich by selling new internet nam… Read more at paidContent »
The agency that controls the domain name system — the central directory for the internet — has launched a program that could create hundreds of new domains. But critics, including the FTC, say there is no need, and the only outcome will be chaos and lawsuits. Read more »
In an unusual alliance, major corporations are walking in lockstep with the federal government and international NGO’s to stop a reviled int… Read more at paidContent »
Well, that was predictable. The chance to buy a “.xxx” domain is now open to the public and already someone appears to have used the opportu… Read more at paidContent »
Following its launch of the .xxx domain name this week, the Internet naming authority known as ICANN is preparing to uncork thousands more n… Read more at paidContent »
Another month, another summit in Paris to discuss the future of the Internet — and another debate that ends up in the same old arguments about copyright infringement and law enforcement. Are we doomed to keep repeating our mistakes, or can we ever move on? Read more »
Nearly two-thirds of Netflix users that subscribe to broadband are now viewing the ‘Watch Instantly’ streaming video service and 8 percent view content exclusively on their TVs. I am among them and am convinced that Netflix has streaming video’s future figured out. Read more »
Whether you like it or not, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) — the nonprofit Internet naming registry that controls all the top-level domains like dot com — will likely be accepting new ones within the next 12 months. If the entrepreneurs behind […] Read more »
