BRS Media is urging ICANN to assess whether community domains approved in the 2012 new gTLD round have served their intended communities, as concerns over preferential treatment resurface in the 2026 ...

We’re trained to type dot-com almost on autopilot, but more top-level domains are coming. You’ll soon see websites ending in .eat, .fly and .here. It’s a new way for restaurants, travel agencies and ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit organization that coordinates the Domain Name System (DNS), has published the list of new generic top-level domain (gTLD) ...

There are currently around 1500 top-level domains. Soon there could be almost twice as many.

Amazon submitted applications for eight TLDs, including .alexa, .echo, .eero, .kgs, .kuiper, .leo, .ring and .twitch. Despite its plethora of products, Microsoft only sought two: .msft and .copilot.

Ali’s invitation to post reflections on the past 25 years of ICANN is very welcome. No doubt, some will write about major shifts in how ICANN is governed, for example, the end of United States ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today commemorates International Internet Day, recognizing the pioneers who helped establish the Internet and the global community that ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today launched the Coalition for Digital Africa, an initiative aimed at expanding ...

New domain name extensions are proliferating to meet the demands of blockchains. As I see it (as the founder of an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar), registering an alternative root domain ...

ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.… ...