ICANN outlines its IGF 2026 agenda in Nairobi, focusing on multilingual Internet access, multistakeholder governance and Africa's technical community, with discussions on Universal Acceptance, new ...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit organization that coordinates the Domain Name System (DNS), has published the list of new generic top-level domain (gTLD) ...

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.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today commemorates International Internet Day, recognizing the pioneers who helped establish the Internet and the global community that ...

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.

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 ...

ICANN has defended its decision to fund a group that proposed a radical new governance model that would give states a role in regulating the internet, and distanced itself from the group’s proposal.… ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today launched the Coalition for Digital Africa, an initiative aimed at expanding ...

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 ...

This year, anyone can apply for a killer top-level domain on the internet. I’m talking about the part to the right of the URL dot, like .com or .org. Over a thousand of these already exist: .app for ...