Have a Spare Half Million? Get Your Own Domain Name! With just 85 days to go until you can get your very own top-level domain name, Web registry CentralNic has launched a service for the more…discerning buyers. ICANN, the international organization that sets the rules for domain names, approved new top-level domains in June, allowing ...
A big milestone for the biggest domain name registrar. The Go Daddy Group, which includes domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, is likely to cross the 50 million domain milestone next week. The company hit 45 million domains registered just nine months ago in December. The 50 million domains number represents the total number registered at a ...
Monday is a big day for new top level domain names as latest applicant guidebook is released. ICANN will release the next (final?) applicant guidebook for new top level domain names as well as a new micro site dedicated to the new top level domain name program tomorrow. The site will be hosted at newgtlds.icann.org. ...
NEW YORK — The Internet’s domain-name system (DNS) was formalized in the late 1990s by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). I was ICANN’s founding chairman, and we more or less followed the rules of trademarks, with an overlay of “first come, first served.” In short, if you could show that you ...
ICANN plans to greatly expand the Internet domain namespaceA name is just a sound or sequence of letters. It carries no value or meaning other than as a pointer to something in people’s minds—a concept, a person, a brand, a particular thing or individual. Legally speaking, there are generic words, which refer to concepts or ...
Rod Beckstrom,President and CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) speaks during a historic meeting to decide the future of new generic top-level domains [EPA] A name is just a sound or sequence of letters. It carries no value or meaning other than as a pointer to something in people’s minds ...
Editor’s Note: Esther Dyson, CEO of EDventure Holdings, is an active investor in a variety of start-ups around the world. Her interests include information technology, health care, private aviation, and space travel. For more from  Esther Dyson, visit Project Syndicate or follow it on Facebook and Twitter. By Esther Dyson, Project Syndicate A name is just a sound or sequence of ...
The group that manages the Internet’s domain name system is strongly defending a proposal approved in June that could lead to the introduction of hundreds or even thousands of new Internet domain names. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a California-based nonprofit, strongly defended both its process and policy in response to a ...