ICANN

Can You Imagine More Than 1,200 New Top-Level Domains? ICANN.

John Paczkowski in News on April 30 at 3:09 pm PT

When ICANN finally begins its domain-name expansion program in earnest, how many new top-level domains can we expect see cluttering up the Web? More than 1,200 would be a good bet.

ICANN Delays Dot-Anything Domain Deadline

John Paczkowski in News on April 13 at 4:08 am PT

Companies looking for vanity domains can hold onto their $185,000 a wee bit longer.

Grab Your Cash and Warm Up the Wagon — ICANN Domain Rush Kicks Off Tomorrow

John Paczkowski in News on January 11 at 1:23 pm PT

Get ready for a world of domain name clutter.

The Total.Chaos Domain Has Already Been Registered? How About Shameless.Money.Grab?

John Paczkowski in News on June 20, 2011 at 9:23 am PT

Think Internet domain namespace is an unnavigable mess now? Just wait.

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Egypt, Al Gore and the .XXX Domain–Bill Clinton Keynotes ICANN in San Francisco

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on March 17, 2011 at 1:34 am PT

Former President Bill Clinton addressed about 800 attendees last night at the 40th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. Luckily, the protesting porn stars aren’t due until today.

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Egypt Grabs First Arabic Domain Name

Cassandra Vinograd, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 16, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

On the first day that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers opened registration for non-Latin script domains, Egypt says it has seized the opportunity to register the first all-Arabic domain name.

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ICANN: Club Med for Geeks?

Marisa Taylor, Tech Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 6, 2009 at 8:11 am PT

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization that manages Internet domain names, has been called a lot of names, but “Club Med for Geeks” is a new one. Computerworld reporter Patrick Thibodeau hurled the insult on an email list discussion after learning that ICANN had a travel budget of more than $12 million.