Tag: TLD

Since as early as 2001, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been considering a move to segregate all porn sites from the rest of the Web by moving them to the .xxx top level domain (TLD). But, even after approving a voluntary use of the domain in 2005, it ran into objections from family groups who believed that having a .xxx domain would only encourage the creation ...

ICANN, which governs the world of Internet domain names, has relaxed the rules governing the issuance of top level domains (TLD) such as ".com" and ".net." The new rules allow individuals and companies to purchase a custom TLD, and Canon has decided it wants to be among the first to grab a piece of the pie. The camera king has announced that is has applied to purchase the TLD ".canon." This would ...

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 ...