The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today commemorates International Internet Day, recognizing ...

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

ICANN's 2026 new gTLD round attracted no Bangla-script applications, despite supporting 27 scripts. Application data reveals limited South Asian participation and a sharp decline in internationalized ...

There are currently around 1500 top-level domains. Soon there could be almost twice as many.

Applications reflect global interest in expanding choice and competition in the Domain Name System ...

ICANN has started testing authentication schemes that will allow law enforcement agencies to make urgent requests for ...

Ali’s invitation to post reflections on the past 25 years of ICANN is very welcome. No doubt, some will write about major shifts in how ICANN is governed, for example, the end of United States ...

“Agents could reshape DNS traffic patterns and intensify demand on the systems that enable discovery, authentication, and ...

Amazon submitted applications for eight TLDs, including .alexa, .echo, .eero, .kgs, .kuiper, .leo, .ring and .twitch. Despite its plethora of products, Microsoft only sought two: .msft and .copilot.

ICANN has set up a panel, consisting of people in government, civil society, the private sector, the technical community and international organizations, to address concerns about the governance of ...

New domain name extensions are proliferating to meet the demands of blockchains. As I see it (as the founder of an ICANN-accredited domain name registrar), registering an alternative root domain ...