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 ...

Assuming that the ICANN Board of Directors gives its final approval on June 20, Internet users will have their first opportunity to branch out beyond the familiar, limited set of Internet 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 ...

The group that runs the Internet's address system is extending by a week the deadline for applications to run a new top-level domain name such as .horse or .bank to compete with .com, .net and other ...

When using the Internet most people connect to web sites, ftp servers or other Internet servers by connecting to a domain name, as in www.bleepingcomputer.com. Internet applications, though, do not ...

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 .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 ...