The web is set for its biggest shake up since the arrival of the lolcat after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) voted to dramatically increase the number of domain endings.

Currently there are 21 generic top-level...

Who amongst us hasn't thought of setting up a website, so fantastic that it's bound to make millions; if only we could grab that all important domain, placing the proverbial icing on the website cake.

Well 123-reg is currently offering a deal...

The governing body that decides what the top level domain names like .com and .co.uk, ICANN, has finally approved the creation of .xxx for porn websites after years of campaigning.

The approval grants ICM Registry’s .XXX web suffix with...

The .xxx domain name could go live this week - creating an online red light porn district.

The porn industry has been calling for its introduction for years although, until now, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

Sex.com has been snapped up by an unknown (to us, at least) company based on the island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean.

The notable domain has been up for grabs since July, when its previous owner Escom LLC was declared bankrupt; Clover Holdings...

Domains, domains, domains. Who doesn't wish they could go back to the pioneering days of the Internet, pick up few money making URLs and do some cyber squatting old school style in one of the few get rich quick schemes that actually worked? Well, those...

Light the candles and clear your throat, for we're about to sing happy birthday to Symbolics.com, the very first domain to be registered on the Web, on 15 March 1985. Despite the computer manufacturer being long-gone, the website hosted by the company...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN as it's known to its friends, has announced that it's postponing a decision on whether websites will be able to register a .xxx domain until June

Proponents of the creation of the...

Next month could see a new record for the price paid for a URL as Sex.com is to go under the auctioneer's hammer in the States.

The last time Sex.com was up for sale back in 2006 it reportedly sold for $14 million, but it seems the company...

It seems as if previous reports we brought you that suggested Sony's coming-soon motion controller for the PS3 could be called the "Arc" might well have been on the right track.

While gaming site VG247 previously cited a "concrete source"...

The African country of Cameroon does rather well out of people mis-typing domain names. For a long time, if you mis-typed a .com address as .cm, then you'd end up on an ad-filled page run by the country's domain registrar - Camnet.

Not any...

Apple designer, or to give him his correct title, senior vice president of industrial design, Jonathan Ive, has lost a recent Apple-backed bid to get control of domain names based around his name.

Jonathanive.com, jony-ive.com, jonathan-ive.com,...

A birthday present for an 11-year-old Narnia fan landed a British family in a legal fight, which they have now lost.

Richard Saville-Smith bought the domain name Narnia.mobi for his son's birthday present, but then found himself facing a...

An English man has launched a campaign to ensure a corner of
the internet remains "forever English".

John Sewell of Maidenhead is hoping to raise support for a new domain name that will allow the English to show off their Englishness.

Brits are accustomed to going straight to .co.uk domains when searching for a site, according to a new survey by YouGov.

Over 60% of the 2000 or so internet users questioned said that the .co.uk ending will automatically mean that the site...