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Following a concerted decade-long campaign, proponents of an online "red light district" -- a specific domain for adult entertainment sites -- can finally celebrate with the sale of ".xxx" websites going live this week. With reports that the web was running out of web addresses sparking off fears that an “iPocalypse” ...

DNS is one of those core technologies on which the internet runs. For most end users, DNS is pretty much invisible until they want to register their first domain for their own websites. At that point, the concept of a domain registrar suddenly pops into view.But at the heart ...

Voting in Singapore on Monday, ICANN’s board -- lauding the decision as a "historic change" -- decided to increase the number of generic top-level domains names (.com, .org, .net etc) from the current 22.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is global body responsible for managing the internet’s ...

Internet specialists gathered in Colombia on Thursday calling for the creation of an ".xxx" domain for pornographic websites, saying it would make it easier to police them."Since we cannot fight the pornographic industry on the Internet, a thousand-headed monster... we are demanding that they be socially responsible and adopt a ...

The reserve of available Internet addresses will be used up around the world in January, warned experts.Internet addresses are distributed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which provides them to five regional organisations around the world."The pool of central addresses will be used up in January," ...