ICANN glitch reveals personal details of new web domain applicants

Last Updated: Saturday, June 16, 2012, 15:46

US-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that manages web domain names, has mistakenly revealed the mailing addresses and contact details of some people who applied for the new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).

Google's $ 18.7 mn buy: .google, .fly, .eat

Last Updated: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 14:35

ICANN will decide who gets ownership of the contested top-level domains.

21 Indian cos apply for domain names priced over Rs 1 cr each

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 21:12

RIL, Airtel and SBI made applications for "top-level domains" such as .Indians, .RIL, .Bharti, .SBI rather than just the traditional .Com and .Net have been made by these firms to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).

ICANN to reveal list of applications for Generic TLDs

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 10:40

ICANN which is responsible for maintaining the internet's domain name system thus will break the .com address pattern.

Porn domain on Internet touches alarm buttons

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 09:46

WIPO, whose Director General Francis Gurry reported on Monday that cases of Web piracy, commonly called cybersquatting, rose 2.5% last year.

ICANN to expand top level internet domains

Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2012, 13:47

This week will witness a biggest change in the world of World Wide Web. After 30 years of its inception, internet will allow users to have domain names of their choice.

Soon – Make your name a web domain

Last Updated: Monday, January 9, 2012, 12:31

Reportedly, anyone will be able register any web address suffix for USD 185,000 (Rs 9,754,051 approx).

Pay $1.85 lakh to own top level website domain name

Last Updated: Friday, October 14, 2011, 19:38

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said it will charge USD 1,85,000 for generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs).

End of dotcom era, Net braces for `notcoms`

Last Updated: Monday, June 20, 2011, 12:15

Coming soon to the internet: website addresses that end in ".bank," ".Vegas" and ".Canon."

Internet exhausting addresses, but no IPocalypse

Last Updated: Sunday, January 23, 2011, 11:13

ICANN, entrusted with organising the Web is running out of the "IP" numbers.

Net addresses in Arabic activated for Egypt, Arabia, UAE

Last Updated: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 21:27

It`s now possible for websites to use addresses entirely in Arabic.

Web boss sees risk of multiple internets

Last Updated: Thursday, January 28, 2010, 10:50

Clandestine efforts by some countries to create alternative versions of the Internet for political ends could put the Web at risk, the man responsible for organizing the network told a news agency on Wednesday.