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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” ...

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 ...