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 ...

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 ...

It’s now been 30 years since the internet and the world wide web undeniably entered mainstream consciousness. A remarkable variety of digital mainstays trace their emergence to 1995, an innovative ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Investor Bill Gross is planning one of the most ambitious attempts to bypass the bureaucracy that assigns Internet names. A Pasadena, Calif., start-up called New.net, funded by Mr. Gross's closely ...