The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — the nonprofit organization responsible for assigning and monitoring the Internet’s IP addresses and domain names — said it is investigating a ...

Administrative functions of the world's web traffic have been officially transferred out of US jurisdiction last October, but the non-profit organisation overseeing its operations remains bound by ...

ICANN has introduced the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to the Internet’s root zone, the central database for the Internet’s Domain Name System, paving the way for possibly 1,400 new ...

Lawmakers are calling for hearings, consumer groups are up in arms, and directors are attacking each other in increasingly nasty ways. Sounds like deja vu for the Internet Corporation for Assigned ...

In his first year heading the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Fadi Chehade has tried to establish a more international ICANN by opening hubs in Turkey, Singapore, Beijing, and ...

A for-profit group might not end up controlling the .org domain after all. The ICANN Board has rejected Internet Society’s proposal to sell control of the .org domain and the Public Interest Registry, ...

In late January, dotgay LLC announced some good news for those of us who favor LGBTQ community control of a dedicated space on the Web: Following a lively campaign by Internet users and LGBTQ ...

This week, the long-delayed decision from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on the future of the new .gay generic top level domain (gTLD) was published, and the news was very bad ...

Icann aims to roll out the first new suffixes before the end of May 2013 Internet name regulator Icann is to decide which order it will handle applications for new suffixes later. The organisation has ...

A German court has found that US firm ICANN is collecting more personal data than is required for legitimate business purposes. GDPR has been in force for more than a month now, and many companies and ...

Ukraine's request to cut Russia off from core parts of the internet has been rejected by the nonprofit group that oversees the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). CEO Göran Marby of the Internet ...