Centraal has developed the RealNames system - a method of domain naming based on 'real names' instead of complicated URLs. Internet company Centraal has announced a partnership with Germany's leading search engine, Fireball.
BT is enticing customers to its free ISP, BTconnect to Business, by offering free domain names to every small business that signs up. Small businesses will get a '[companyname].co.uk' address, email and web hosting services, along with web...
At its summit meeting in Yokohama, Japan, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has decided to make new top-level domains (TLDs) available, but the organisation does not yet know how many or which ones.
The decision puts domain names on the same footing as ordinary, tangible property and could ultimately be hugely influential in internet-related cases. Previously, the legal status of domain names has been uncertain, and Network Solutions has...
At the moment, the US government maintains control of the internet's "root" - the master file that lists which top-level domains are authorised - but has indicated in the past that it would transfer that responsibility to the Internet Corporation...
A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over internet domain names. Among the governance options put forward by the group were a continuation of the current system, creation of a...