Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

Companies can now own the 'Right Side of the Dot’ of their own domain

Sun, 2011-10-09 21:08 - By

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ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has approved the new gTLD (Top Level Domains) programme, allowing any company that meets the requirements to apply for its own domain name extension and own the Right Side of the Dot.

Icann increases web domain suffixes

Mon, 2011-06-20 07:05 - By

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Media Business, PR Business, Electronics & Technology, Public interest, BBC, domain names, global communications, ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Rod Beckstrom, web domain suffixes

A global internet body has voted to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes, the biggest change for the online world in years.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.