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 ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is finally changing that. And thanks to emerging standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP), domain management is no longer locked inside clunky dashboards. It can ...

Ben Jackson’s goal is to stymie people who develop phishing sites — misleading Web sites designed to steal people’s personal information. Jackson, a 26-year-old developer from New Bedford, Mass., who ...

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 ...