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

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 ...

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 ...