The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers plans to expand the number of top-level domains – the part after the dot in a url, such as .com or .org – from 22 to almost 2,000. About half ...

The problem of “spoofing” the Domain Name System, or DNS, which has been called the phone book of the internet, touches on what users type into the address bar of a browser window or click on ...

SINGAPORE — Internet minders voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in any language, in the ...

Critics See 'Disaster' In Expansion Of Domain Names The agency that governs domain categories like .org and .com is forging ahead with plans to sell new names despite some vocal opposition from ...

Groups able to pay the $185,000 application can petition next year for new updates to ".com" and ".net" with website suffixes using nearly any word in any language.

The group that governs Internet names is allowing for more "top-level domain names" — that's the technical term for endings like dot-com and dot-net. Nearly 2,000 applications poured in from ...

Nearly 2,000 applications poured in from companies hoping to grab domain name endings like dot-app, dot-eat and dot-baby. Google spent more than $18 million to apply for the rights to obvious ...