Finding a domain name could be about to get dot-complicated. The global body charged with coordinating the Internet's naming system is accepting applications for what are called generic top-level ...

Currently, there are 22 generic top-level domains, with an additional 250 country-specific domains (like .es and .ly). In its original announcement, ICANN noted that it would cap new generic top-level ...

A domain name consists of the words that are used for locating sites on the Internet. For example, www.amazon.com is the domain name that locates Amazon. Many company owners use their company name or ...

The Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) begins its 60th meeting in Abu Dhabi next week. One hot-button topic sure to be discussed is how governments and the internet community ...

The .rush is on -- and it may create the world wide weird. Proposals for Internet addresses ending in ".pizza," ".space" and ".auto" are among the nearly 2,000 submitted as part of the largest ...

Meantime, some big players, including Go Daddy and Demand Media, are revealing their bets on a world beyond dot-com. Paul Sloan is editor in chief of CNET News. Before joining CNET, he had been a San ...