An Internet domain name is a string of typographic characters used to describe the location of a specific location online. Formally known as the Uniform Resource Locator or URL, it is often considered ...

Fractionalization refers to when a domain can be collectively owned, with each participant holding a defined portion of its ...

In 2026, owning a domain won’t just be about staking a claim on the web. It will mean establishing trust, flexibility, and ...

GENEVA — Nearly 2,500 .radio domains have been registered since the launch of the new Top Level Domain (TLD) in August 2017. ICANN, which manages internet domain names and IP addresses, granted the ...

D3 Global, the a decentralized domain name company, has raised $25 million to modernize the way that internet domain names operate. D3 is building what it calls the world’s first DomainFi network on ...

Three Mideast countries have become the first to get Internet addresses entirely in non-Latin characters. By The Associated Press CAIRO — Three Mideast countries have become the first to get Internet ...

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Contrary to popular belief, America doesn't own the Internet. But it does, currently, oversee the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit entity that controls the ...

Ukraine's request to cut Russia off from core parts of the internet has been rejected by the nonprofit group that oversees the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). CEO Göran Marby of the Internet ...

A rash of new Web domain suffixes has popped up in recent years to supplement .com and .net — terms such as .bargains or .dating. Several new suffixes seem to invite negative feedback. There are ...

The Internet domain name for a country doesn’t belong to that country — nor to anyone, according to ICANN. Plaintiffs who successfully sued Iran, Syria and North Korea as sponsors of terrorism want to ...