Popular domain name registrar Namecheap has announced Tuesday that it has reached 2 million domains under its management. “Reaching 2 million domains is an incredible milestone for us,” Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap said. “We’re a service-oriented business that prides itself on providing the best deals with a support team that strives to make each ...
Namecheap Reaches 2 Million Actively Managed Domains Hosting News – Los Angeles, CA - Popular domain name registrar Namecheap has announced Tuesday that it has reached 2 million domains under its management. “Reaching 2 million domains is an incredible milestone for us,” Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap said. “We’re a service-oriented business that prides itself ...
Hailed as the biggest internet shake-up since .com’s 1984 entry, the freeing up of domain names may also open the floodgates to cybersquatting and online fraud on a scale not seen before, say analysts. This May, iPhone-maker Apple bought back the iCloud.com domain for around $4.5 million (over Rs20 crore) before the much-publicised unveiling of the ...
The organization responsible for assigning domain names made a decision this week to shake up the familiar names used to navigate the Web. For years, people have been used to typing endings such as “.com” or “.gov” to visit websites. Soon it will be possible for companies and individuals to create their own top-level domain ...
By SAM HOLMES And CHRISTOPHER RHOADS The dot-com era is over. Welcome to the dot-anything age. On Monday, the organization that regulates the world’s Internet domain names—yes, there is central coordination—approved changes that could allow anyone to register any name they like in almost any language as a Web address. The new rules affect what ...
Founding chair of ICANN’s board says new TLDs are a waste of money. On the way into work this morning I heard yet another report about new top level domain names, this time on NPR. The report interviewed Esther Dyson. Among her many experiences was being the founding chairwoman of ICANN. So what did she ...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the organization that oversses the Internet address system, voted to open up the floodgates on website domain suffixes. Right now, there are only 22 domain endings as well as around 250 country-level domain names, such as .us or .uk, explains the BBC. Now it’s the “dot-anything ...
Move over .com, get ready for .anything .you .can .think .of. The body that controls the way Internet domain names work, known as ICANN, has voted to open up the naming system so that any established organization with enough cash can apply to create its own version of .com, .org or .gov. In the for-profit ...