New rules let companies build web and email names using .nike, .mcdonalds and .hbo, but tech giant Google is the most eager. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

COMMENTARY--The number of Internet addresses available using the current generation of Internet infrastructure built on IPv4 technology will run out by 2005, jeopardizing the continued development of ...

Can the web exist without internet addresses? And if so, how do you navigate? These are some of the controversial questions that Google is asking as it tries to make the World Wide Web a safer place ...

Back in the 1980s when the internet was still in its infancy, countries were being handed their own unique website addresses to navigate this nascent new online world. Such as .us for the US or .uk ...

GRAND RAPIDS – Area universities are buying up Internet domain names – in hopes that no one will ever click on them. With the .xxx Internet address ending joining the .coms, .nets and .orgs this week, ...

Critics fear the transfer could lead to censorship. — -- Oversight of the internet’s naming directory -- essentially the web’s address book -- will be transferred today from the U.S. government ...

After months of preparations, a few Web sites are beginning to appear online with new .info top-level domain addresses that can be visited using Internet browser software. More than 52,000 .info ...

Community colleges have stepped up their fight for the right to use World Wide Web addresses ending in ".edu” -- an increasingly coveted distinction as colleges and companies compete for ...

WASHINGTON -- Coming soon to the Internet: website addresses that end in ".bank," ".Vegas" and ".Canon." The organization that oversees the Internet address system is preparing to open the floodgates ...