ICANN

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.

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.

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.

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.

Twomey: ICANNot Stay

John Paczkowski in News on March 2, 2009 at 3:01 pm PT

In late 2009, ICANN will begin accepting applications for an indefinite number of new generic top-level domain names, ushering in what critics say will be a disastrous era of consumer confusion, domain name abuse and trademark infringement. So really, can you blame ICANN president and CEO Paul Twomey for stepping down at the end of the year?

Recession Weighs on Web Address Growth

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 23, 2009 at 8:01 am PT

Maybe sexy Super Bowl ads aren’t helping the domain name business as much as we thought. Domain registrar VeriSign’s latest report on the state of the industry shows that while more than 10.1 million new Web addresses were registered in the fourth quarter, this was a 17 percent drop from the period a year earlier.

The 168-Hour Work Week

John Paczkowski in News on December 15, 2008 at 11:34 am PT

If the line between your work and home life hasn’t yet been blurred by near-ubiquitous Internet connectivity, just you wait. Because by 2020 it’s likely to have been erased entirely. That’s the word from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, whose recent “Future of the Internet III” study suggests that the dawn of the mobile phone as a “primary” Internet connection will essentially obliterate the boundaries between work and home.