Web domains to expand from 22 to 1%2C000 or more in 2014 New suffixes include %22.bike%2C%22 %22.estate%2C%22 %22.gallery%22 and %22.sexy%22 Some companies such as ...

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Five companies on Wednesday officially announced their intent to compete for the .net domain registry, including current registry operator VeriSign. VeriSign faces stiff competition for the first time ...

Internet users may soon be required to pay an additional annual fee for each domain name they own, thanks to a virtually unnoticed requirement that will begin to take effect next year. The Internet ...

The ISP industry is watching with interest the ongoing competition to operate the .net domain, which is a critical component of the Internet’s infrastructure. Five domain name registries submitted ...

Exercising its contractual right to raise prices, VeriSign is once again increasing the base registration fees for .com and .net domain names. It's the second increase in as many years since the ...

Owners of .net Web addresses may face higher registry fees in the future--but not until 2007. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit organization responsible for ...

This month, for the first time, the right to manage the .net domain is up for grabs: Interested companies had to make their bids last week; the winner will be announced in March. But how does running ...

CAIROCAIRO — The use of non-Latin characters in Internet addresses is a key step to opening up the Web and making it more “personalized” for billions of users, the head of the nonprofit body that ...