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...

The first web addresses to not be written in a latin-based script have gone live on the Internet, beginning with the Egypt's Communications Ministry.

As a result of the Web's Western roots, domain servers were previously only able to accept...

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...

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...

The Internet for the non-western world could be set for a major upheaval next week as ICANN - the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - meets in Seoul to discuss the possibility of allowing non-Latin characters to be used in web addresses.

The...

After 6 years of discussion, the Internet's regulator, Icann, has voted unanimously to change the strict rules on "top-level" domain names.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has okayed the new regulations that will...

Plans to create an internet domain name specifically for pornographic websites have been rejected seven years after they were first proposed.

ICANN members, the body that looks after domain addresses on the web, said that approving the domain...

ICM Registry, the company behind the unsuccessful bid for a .xxx domain for internet pornography, is to take the United States government to court over the issue.

Earlier this month, a proposal for the creation of the .xxx domain was turned...

It was supposed to give web users a greater understanding of what was and what wasn't suitable content, however it appears that the .xxx domain tag that was to be used by the porn industry has been put on hold, indefinitely.

The board of ICANN,...