The worlds of politics and commerce collide as several countries seek to block proposed top-level domain names. Reasons include everything from religious sensibilities to geographic similarities.

Countries Cash In On Domain Names MARINA DEL REY, Calif. (AP) — With some 20 million '' ... any moderately easy-to-remember domain name is apt to be claimed by now.

Still, one country’s censorship could be another’s peacekeeping. “There should be some restrictions on domain names that are culturally sensitive,” said Yoav Keren, ...

In other countries, revenue from foreign domain registration might go to a private company, like GoDaddy.com, which sells .US ccTLDs, or it could go to a non-profit.

The Web domain for Palestine was awarded several months ago, but there it languishes, a victim of a people without a country and a never-ending dispute with Israel. By Oscar S. Cisneros.

In mid-October, a little-known but critically important domain name for one country’s internet space began to expire. The domain — scpt-network.com — was one of two nameservers for the .cd ...

The total number of country-code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) registrations was 137 million at the end of the second quarter of 2023, which represented an increase of 1.1 million domain name ...

The IDN World Report, a research project of EURid (the Registry for .EU), UNESCO and other partners which started in 2011, covers statistics and trends within the global Internationalised Domain ...

In 1985, a Massachusetts computer manufacturer registered the first .com domain name -- symbolics.com -- six years before the web became publicly available. By the end of 2018, there were 348.7 ...

There’s no additional value in having city names or country names in the top-level domain. We treat them all like any other generic top-level domain, like leica.com, essentially.

Google has announced that it's retiring separate country code top-level domain names for search, like google.co.uk or google.com.br, and unifying them under Google.com.. Previously, Google used to ...

What's In A Domain Name? A Lot, Countries Say. July 25, 2013 1:04 PM ET. By . ... The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is the body that, among other things, governs domain names.