An Internet domain name is a unique name of a server connected to the Internet, such as a Web server, email server or FTP (file transfer) server. Internet domain names are often the name of an ...

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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 ...

In a direct challenge to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a start-up domain name registry yesterday said it’s launching 20 new top-level domains that would be ...

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 ...

Apple recently purchased the iCloud.net domain, one of the last major iCloud-related web addresses that wasn't in its possession, reports TechCrunch. The iCloud.net domain, which now appears to be ...