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 ...

For decades, buying a domain has been the starting point for anyone building online. But for too long, the steps that follow, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...