Tag: DOMAIN NAMES

The Obama administration is pushing for a new policy that, if implemented, would give the U.S. government the power to veto any top-level domain names submitted for approval. The process of approving suffixes like .com, .org and .net is overseen by a non-profit called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates under a contract with the government. Current ...

When it comes to booking your next holiday retreat, there are a number of places in the world you'd probably be unlikely to visit if you value your safety -- places like Iraq, Somalia, or Detroit. Digital locations are apparently no different. Anti-virus and computer security company McAfee has a map for you, and red most certainly means don't go. The company has done a search of worldwide ...

digg_url =' http://www.switched.com/2009/08/30/high-school-and-porn-site-have-similar-web-addresses/'; A Florida high school is having serious problems with its Web presence, and it has nothing to do with viruses, spam, or hackers. Both PaceHighSchool.net and PaceHighSchool.com are working perfectly fine; unfortunately, one address is for a public Florida high school and the other is for a ...

Since leaving public office and embarking on a quest to raise the public's awareness of climate change, Al Gore has been a part of an Oscar-winning documentary and received a Nobel Peace Prize. According to Mashable, the former Vice President is now embarking on a campaign with the Sierra Club, Surfrider, and other eco-organizations to make the Net a greener, more environmentally friendly ...

Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted to relax rules governing the assignment of top level domains (TLD) (the endings of Web addresses, such as ".com". The new rules would open up the possibility for custom domain suffixes, so that, instead of being stuck with ".com" or ".net," companies and individuals could purchase domain names that ended in ...

What's the most expensive domain name on the Internet? It's not 'Porn.com,' which comes in a close second, but 'Fund.com,' at nearly $10 million. Using data from the Domain Name Journal, ABC News put together this list of top 10 most expensive URLs on the Web: 1. Fund.com, $9.99 million 2. Porn.com, $9.5 million 3. Diamonds.com, $7.5 million 4. Toys.com, $5.1 million 5. Vodka.com, $3 million 6. ...

It used to be that you could pretty much get any address on the Web for free (or a small administration fee), but those days are long over. Now, if a company wants the perfect Web address for a new site, they may well have to shell out quite a bit of money. While most domain names (aka Web addresses) are still relatively inexpensive, there are a few that are well out of the average surfer's ...