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Bungling ICANN will now reveal “.vegas”, other new names in June.
After botching the registration process for hundreds of new top level domain names, ICANN has pushed back its “big reveal” date. The 2300 or so new names like “.rugby,” “.green” and “.vegas” that were...
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LOL! Google to purchase .lol, .youtube domain names
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...
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Amazon is major player for new internet names, bids include “.news” and “.book”
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...
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The new internet names: a plain English explanation
There is much hoopla today over the hundreds of new names like “.baby” that could soon join “.com” and “.org” as fixtures of the internet. Many people, including some who hope to get rich, are hyping...
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Why the new domain-name lottery is a train wreck
In case you missed all of the hullabaloo, the internet is about to get a whole lot bigger — or noisier and more confusing, depending on how you look at it. That’s because ICANN, the non-profit agency...
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Should Google and Amazon be allowed to control domains?
There’s been a lot written about the domain-name “land grab” that ICANN — the agency in charge of the internet’s central address system — unleashed recently, by offering companies the chance to...
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Why you should be afraid of the UN’s plan to regulate the internet
It’s rare that ordinary internet users need to care about what goes on at the United Nations, but this is definitely one of those times, if only because the UN’s telecom arm is currently holding...
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GoDaddy predicts first batch of new web site names will go on sale by June
As the process to roll out hundreds of new top-level domain names, which will join familiar ones like “.org” and “.com,” grinds forward, the head of the largest domain registrar predicted the public...
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Authors and publishers objects to Amazon’s “.book” and “.read” names; future...
The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, worried that Amazon will use new internet names like “.book” and “.author” to gain more power in the publishing industry, are asking the...
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New York City gets own domain name as ICANN approves “.nyc”
New York isn’t a modest place at the best of times, but now Gotham has a new reason to crow: it will be one of the first cities in the world to offer citizens and local businesses their very own “.nyc”...
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.london calling — UK capital secures its own top-level domain
London is set to get its own eponymous generic top-level domain (gTLD), after web address regulator ICANN gave the scheme the green light this week. The .london addresses will be made available to...
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How should the internet develop after Snowden? New commission aims to find out
An independent “Global Commission on Internet Governance” was launched at Davos on Wednesday, promising an in-depth two-year study of how the internet should be run. This will take into account the...
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Here’s how Europe thinks the internet should be run
How should the internet be run? Now that we know that the U.S. and its partners have largely co-opted the network of networks as a surveillance tool, the question of the internet’s governance is at the...
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The U.S. seems ready to give up control of the internet
The U.S. Department of Commerce is apparently seeking alternative bids for control of the domain name system registry that acts as the address book for the entire web. Inside the Department of Commerce...
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Reinventing the internet: Here’s how to make online life more secure and...
In a perfect world, the internet would be a secure place to conduct personal and business affairs. Of course, as we know ever more painfully, it is not. There are many reasons for that, from the...
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Dot Eco: Does the World Need A Green Top-Level Domain?
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...
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Netflix + Broadband = Watch Instantly, Even on Big-screen TVs
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...
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Will Governments Get To Veto New Web Domains Like .Gay?
The non-profit organization that assigns IP addresses and related internet names, ICANN, will be rolling out a system offering new "top-leve… Will Governments Get To Veto New Web Domains Like .Gay?...
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Paris power play feels like deja vu all over again
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...
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How Internet Naming Authority ICAAN Plans To Double Its Revenues
Following its launch of the .xxx domain name this week, the Internet naming authority known as ICANN is preparing to uncork thousands more n… How Internet Naming Authority ICAAN Plans To Double Its...
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