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 ...

Internet users may soon be required to pay an additional annual fee for each domain name they own, thanks to a virtually unnoticed requirement that will begin to take effect next year. The Internet ...

We have recently seen some blockbuster acquisitions of internet real estate, in the form of premium dotcom domain names. NFTs.com was acquired for a reported $15 million and HubSpot acquired ...

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 ...

The international body in charge of managing Internet domains has given the official go-ahead to create the European top-level domain suffix .eu. The negotiations between ICANN and Eurid lasted nearly ...

There's a land rush going on right now. At least that's how everyone seems to be describing the opening up of vast amounts of Internet real estate with so-called top-level domains. Pretty soon, ...

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 ...

When you use the Internet, you use domain name and hostnames all the time. These hostnames and domain names when put together become the Internet address that you search with. The domain name without ...

Seinfeld episodes notwithstanding, buying a domain name may be easy, but managing the domain and making smart technology decisions is another story. Let’s take a look at the steps and decisions ...

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