Online consumers with a pioneer spirit will soon have the opportunity to homestead new Internet territory outside the traditional dot-com realm. For the first time in more than a decade, two global ...

An Internet attack flooded domain name manager UltraDNS with a deluge of data late last week, causing administrators to scramble to keep up and running the servers that host .info and other domains.

Up to 10,000 cybersquatters look set to be evicted from .info domains they falsely claimed the right to own. Before summer Afilias, the company which runs .info, believes it will have won control of ...

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 ...

More than half a million customers have registered a .info domain name during the first 90 days of operation, according to Afilias, the official registry for the new global top level domain (gTLD).

The introduction of ICANN’s new gTLD programme in 2012 significantly expanded the market, allowing more meaningful, industry-aligned domain name choices. Today, the landscape is a combination of ...

When Internet regulators approved a new set of top-level domains last year, the idea was to create a piece of cyberspace that was a bit less congested than the saturated dot-com domain. But as ...

As the internet has developed many companies which own trademarks have often struggled to extend their brands online because speculators have snapped up .com domains bearing popular names. Last year, ...