US government may no longer have unique oversight of the internet's naming system, but ICANN remains bound by Californian laws, says official, who adds that checks are in place to mitigate any ...

Today, ICANN and the TLDs decide who gets which domain. The Pirate Bay proposes to replace them with an algorithm, one that would reside in the P2P DNS software.

The case of .amazon pits U.S. tech giant Amazon against Brazil and Peru, and will test whether the ICANN model works in a manner that ICANN participants feel is fair, even when they lose.

ICANN CEO and President Kurtis-Erik Lindqvist talks to Zoe Turner about enhancing digital inclusivity and the levels of infrastructure we go through when we use the internet.

ICANN has published an "Advisory Concerning Posting of Registrar Fees for Restoring Deleted Domain Names". The aim was to clarify a provision of the Expired Domain Deletion Policy in relation to the ...

This, ICANN said, further raises the question how .org registrants will be protected or benefit from moving ISOC to Ethos Capital control.

UNESCO, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Society (ISOC) are finalizing a framework to establish an Arabic glossary of Internet governance terms to ...