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As the situation continues to unfold in Ukraine with alarming developments, the country has been putting up a resistance to Russia beyond the ground war: It’s been taking the fight to the digita

A few months ago, researchers at Cisco’s Talos cybersecurity unit sounded the alarm after discovering a previously undiscovered hacker group targeting a core part of the internet’s infrast

The internet’s address book keeper has warned of an “ongoing and significant risk” to key parts of the domain name system infrastructure, following months of increased attacks. The I

Google today announced that you can now register .dev domain names. Google acquired the .dev top-level domain when ICANN opened up the web to new generic top-level domains (gTLD) a few years ago. At t

Last year I covered the launch of GraphPath, a new startup that had developed a platform that aimed to “insert AI into global corporates” by making it easy to create and manage so-called Knowledge

Instead of cheering a reduction of needless government involvement, some -- including a few members of Congress -- are arguing that the U.S. needs to insert itself in a clerical role for certain coord

Ed Vaizey Contributor Ed Vaizey is a Member of the UK Parliament. From 2010 until 2016 he was a minister in the UK Government, responsible for digital and technology policy. More posts by this contrib

The Internet is at once global and local. The nature of internetworking means that the global Internet is built only of other networks. There is a small but key point of coordination on the Internet,

The U.S. reiterated its stance in favor of a multistakeholder model for Internet governance today. Speaking before the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), U.S. Secretary of Co

If you are looking for a good domain name, your choices are about to get more interesting. Starting tomorrow, you’ll be able to register a .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles

The president of ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) Fady Chehade <a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/04/10/coming-soon-a-truly-chinese-interne

If it gets it, Google wants to turn .search into a “dotless domain,” the company told ICANN a few days ago. Last year, Google applied to manage the .app, .blog, .cloud and .search generic

After raising $100M+ last June, Donuts -- a registry for the new top-level domain names that ICANN is ushering in this year (such as .yay or .jobs) -- has announced it has raised a new funding round.

Another step along the long road of ICANN expanding the number of sanctioned top-level web domain names: it has launched a Trademark Clearing House to create a "foundation mechanism for brands to prot

If Google is awarded the right to manage the domain registrations for .search, .app, .blog and .cloud, there is now a <a target="_blank" href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-closed-generic-05fe

Icann -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees a host of Internet-related operations, including the assignment of domain names -- today <a href="https://techcrunch.c

A little bit of a song and dance today from Icann as it released the full list of businesses and other organizations that have applied for their own customized top-level domain names, the first signif

Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) closed its<a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results"> window for new generic top-level domain name

The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) is today calling on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to withdraw its controversial plan for new top-level domains. ICANN's plan wou