A flood of new website addresses with endings like “.book” and “.movie” are set to arrive in coming months. Companies like Amazon and Google are set to control the names but the terms under which they will do so are still undefined. Read more »
The process to add hundreds or thousands of new names to existing suffixes like “.com” and “.org” is chugging onward. Here’s an overview of when we’ll see them and what it means for brand owners. Read more »
The Monday after Thanksgiving means online discounts for many people. To the federal government, it is a day to parade captured websites. Read more at GigaOM »
Google and Amazon have applied for dozens of new top-level domains — including .blog and .book, as well as .search and .cloud — and many of these will be for the exclusive use of the two companies, which critics say is bad for the web. Read more at GigaOM »
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 will be run by Google. Read more »
Brand owners are howling for new laws to help them crush “rogue” websites. But why? New powers don’t seem necessary when courts are already forcing internet companies to delete websites from the internet. Read more at GigaOM »
After botching the registration process for hundreds of new top level domain names, ICANN has pushed back its “big reveal” date on which it will unveil “.rugby” and others. Read more »
New York City will receive millions from domain name sales at no risk to tax-payers, according to a spokesperson for NYC Digital. Read more »
(This post has been updated with New York City’s response)
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In a case that shines light on the world of professional cybersquatters, Verizon is suing a website and a domain name registrar that placed… Read more »
It’s a wonder they pulled this off. An obscure agency and a number of its former officials are about to get rich by selling new internet nam… Read more »
In an unusual alliance, major corporations are walking in lockstep with the federal government and international NGO’s to stop a reviled int… Read more »
Well, that was predictable. The chance to buy a “.xxx” domain is now open to the public and already someone appears to have used the opportu… Read more »
Some Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers may feel like a weed-smoking Elmo is a fitting metaphor for the company after it decided to split off… Read more »
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The non-profit organization that assigns IP addresses and related internet names, ICANN, will be rolling out a system offering new “top-leve… Read more »
