After Yugoslavia's formal name change to Serbia and Montenegro, it is still not clear what will happen with the country's top-level domain name (TLD). There are many rumours about what the new TLD extension that will r...

Previously only available to 4-year universities and community colleges, .edu expands to other institutions. The U.S. Commerce Department approved a plan that would expand the use of the .edu domain. Previously, the dom...

Zara Holdings Limited - former registrants of a desirable three letter .co.uk domain - have lost a domain name dispute under Nominet's Dispute Resolution Service. The action was brought after Zara did not renew their name ...

The .uk.co domain was wiped off the face of the Internet this morning with no notice, leaving more than 8,000 livid individuals and businesses - including Amazon and Priceline - with no Web presence or email. The only ...

Don't get me wrong, I love my domain; but while nik.co.uk has a certain charm, it's doesn't have the international appeal of nik.net, nik.com or even nik.org, each of which was bagged by someone else years ago. That's wh...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bible colleges, ballet studios and acupuncture schools will soon be able to claim an online address in the same neighborhood as Harvard and Yale, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Tuesday. The ...

The US Department of Commerce has quietly renewed ICANN's contract to run the Internet - but other organisations are crying foul, saying ICANN is simply not up to the job The US Department of Commerce has come under fire...

Partnership With Leading ICANN-Accredited Registrar Broadens Availability of Logical, Easy-to-Remember Extensions for Brand Protection and Marketing www.new.net, a domain name registry offering more descriptive and use...

It's a plot worthy of "The X-Files": An organization claiming to be a clandestine intelligence agency somehow obtained a .gov domain, but the government denies any knowledge of the group and has pulled the domain. The g...

A bid to register the 24.com domain as a trademark is facing stiff opposition from a lesser known brand, host24.com, which says such a move will be to the detriment of smaller domains. The Naspers/Media 24 Group, which ...