Tag archive: top level domain

In an attempt to protect their brands from enterprising pornographers and cybersquatters, a number of universities have begun purchasing .xxx top level domains, reports the St. Louis Dispatch. The move will hopefully prevent the school from being associated in any way with sex-laden content. “We don't want someone coming across our trademark on a porn site. God only knows what they'd come up with,” said Terry Robb,… Read More

As we all know by now, Google Search is not a beast to be tampered with. Its Panda update and reissue struck more than fear into websites everywhere, it also sent them into the black hole of the Internet. While there’s something to be said for good intentions (and Google attempting to rid your search results of spam sites and content farms is a noble cause), the search algorithm tweaks have failed to universally boost good sites and banish bad… Read More

In the midst the forthcoming rampant expansion of the Internet, the US government will look to gain veto power over future domain name suffixes. Numerous additions, like .car, .movie, and .web, could be officially introduced next month. But before any new top level generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) are allowed into our address bars, ICANN’s international representatives have to sign off on them. Until now, ICANN’s policy for gTLD applications… Read More

Adult content may soon have its own section of the Internet: the board of the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a proposal from ICM Registry to create a .xxx top-level domain explicitly for online adult content and pornography. The approval is the latest move in a years-long process to create an online red-light district in the Internet's global domain system…and comes after an… Read More

The board of director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to approve a new deal with registrar VeriSign which keeps the company in place as the registrar the Internet's .com top-level domain through at least the year 2012, and maybe even longer. Under the agreement, VeriSign will retain control of the .com registry through 2012, with the possibility of renewal. VeriSign will also be permitted… Read More