New rules let companies build web and email names using .nike, .mcdonalds and .hbo, but tech giant Google is the most eager. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The nonprofit body that oversees Internet addresses approved Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on the Latin alphabet in a decision that could make the Web ...

The risk of the internet fragmenting into national "splinternets" will likely be averted in a UN vote next month, the head of ...

Can the web exist without internet addresses? And if so, how do you navigate? These are some of the controversial questions that Google is asking as it tries to make the World Wide Web a safer place ...

COMMENTARY--The number of Internet addresses available using the current generation of Internet infrastructure built on IPv4 technology will run out by 2005, jeopardizing the continued development of ...

After months of preparations, a few Web sites are beginning to appear online with new .info top-level domain addresses that can be visited using Internet browser software. More than 52,000 .info ...

Critics fear the transfer could lead to censorship. — -- Oversight of the internet’s naming directory -- essentially the web’s address book -- will be transferred today from the U.S. government ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Arabic, spoken by about 280-million people worldwide, will finally ...

WASHINGTON -- Coming soon to the Internet: website addresses that end in ".bank," ".Vegas" and ".Canon." The organization that oversees the Internet address system is preparing to open the floodgates ...

The overseer of the Internet’s addressing system said Wednesday that someone obtained information related to user accounts for its public website, although no financial information was divulged. ICANN ...