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Web users may soon see .lawyer, .bible, or .sex along with .com and .net. HOUSTON, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This summer, a number of new domain names will likely start appearing on the Web. Generic names such as .apple, .home, .app, .vegas or .music could join such stalwarts as .com, .net and .org. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit organization charged with administering the system, has been considering the expansion for...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Last year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began taking applications for new Internet address endings. As many businesses began vying for their own brand-specific names, one company’s plans in particular are being called into question. Amazon is seeking to claim the “.book,” “.author,” and “.read” name endings, but some organizations feel this move would be anticompetitive. This...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been taking applications for new Internet address endings, allowing companies and organizations an opportunity to have specific, specialized web domains for themselves and their products. For example, Apple has applied to the domain ending “.apple,” meaning one day looking up information about the latest iPad could be as easy as typing in “iPad.apple.” ...

AUSTIN, Texas and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Directi Group, a global leader in Internet products and Web services, and its new subsidiary, Radix, today announced that it is the sole ICANN gTLD applicant for the .space, .press and .host strings. It was also revealed that Radix will be competing on the remaining 28 out of 31 gTLDs that it has applied for. According to latest updates from ICANN, there are 1930 applications for new generic top level...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com U.S.-based companies are dominating the applications for new Internet address endings, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). ICANN said the U.S. is accounting for nearly half of all applications, with 884 requests for new suffixes out of a total of 1,930. There has been 40 of the applications from the U.K., 303 from the Asia-Pacific region, and 17 from Africa, according to ICANN. The organization revealed at a...

Part of Seven-Year Effort to Create Inclusive, Transparent Entity to Serve Global Music Community Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 12, 2012 .MUSIC (DotMusic), an organization seeking to launch “.music” as a community-based, generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) since 2005, has formally applied to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to become the global Music Community’s registry service for “.music.” ICANN will reveal the names of all gTLD applicants on Wednesday,...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ICM Registry (icmregistry.com), the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) for online adult entertainment, is hosting a webinar to explore and explain the impact new Internet Top Level Domains (TLD) will have on trademarks and brands. ICM Registry and panelists are presenting a webinar on June 5th that looks at the impact of new Internet top level domains (TLD) on trademarks and brands. In the coming months,...

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ICM Registry (icmregistry.com), the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) for online adult entertainment, today announced a significant move to protect .XXX participants by submitting applications for three additional adult entertainment-related TLDs -- .SEX, .PORN and .ADULT. Under new rules finalized in 2011, ICANN, the governing body for Internet names and numbers, began accepting applications for new...

Organizations and companies looking to buy generic top-level domains (gTLDs) to better promote their brand names will have an extra week to submit their applications to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) due to a software glitch, the US-based overseer said on Thursday. “ICANN constantly monitors the performance of the application system,” it said in a statement. “Recently, we received a report of unusual behavior with the operation of the system. We then...

SAN FRANCISCO and MELBOURNE, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Following the opening of applications for new Top-Level Domains on 12 January, NCC Group (LSE: NCC.L), the world's largest IT assurance/software and data escrow company, and ARI Registry Services, a leading provider of back-end registry services and consulting to applicants for top-level domains, today announce a program to assist prospective applicants with the management of their new domains. Under the terms of this...