The ICANN board voted to reject the application for assignment of the .xxx top-level domain by a vote of 9 to 5, with 1 abstaining. Today’s decision brings to an end the current round of domain name proposals that began back in 2004.

Porn site owners will now be able to rest easy knowing that they won’t have to let go of their .com domains anytime soon. Likewise, opposition from the religious realm proclaims victory in their efforts to thwart the mainstream appeal of pornography across the Internet.

Officials of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN) are becoming increasingly leery of adopting the “.xxx” domain for pornographic websites amid concerns from government officials, the porn industry itself and, oddly enough, many religious groups.

Surprising news comes from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); they have removed the top-level domain .um, for United States “minor outlying islands,” from the list of available domains.

The new head of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Hamadoun Toure has no new plans to change the oversight of the Internet.

Nearly seven years after its initial proposal, the controversial .XXX domain, intended as an online “red light district” for pornographic websites, is soon to be reconsidered by the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which voted not to approve (but did not reject) the proposal in May of 2006.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) posted notice that it had neither the ability nor the authority to suspend the domain spamhaus.org. ICANN was requested to do so after Spamhaus ignored a US court default judgment ordering the company to pay $11.7 million in damages to e360Insight.

ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) unanimously approved the creation of the new .Tel Top Level Domain (TLD) for contact information directories, and awarded the contract to Telnic Limited.

The .XXX Sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD), the so-called “virtual red light district” proposed by the ICM Registry, was voted down by the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday by a vote of 9 to 5.

Paul Vixie helped create BIND, the domain name system that lets people type in a domain name instead of a dotted quad; now the programmer has lent his talents to a German group seeking to create an alternative to the modern Internet.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the US Dept. of Commerce backed overseer of the Internet has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought on by VeriSign, the governor of all things .com and .net, over ICANN’s interference with VeriSign’s controversial Site Finder.

The search engine company has received accreditation as a domain registrar from the non-profit ICANN corporation.

The US Commerce Department announced yesterday its decision to indefinitely maintain supervision of the Internet’s “root servers” that control web traffic. The decision hasn’t been popular with international stakeholders who think oversight of Internet traffic should be a multi-national effort.

Porno sites with sexually explicit material received their own top level domain (TLD) on the Internet as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) begins to review a plan to change the suffix designation .xxx. The primary reason the domain designation is to help people filter out adult oriented content.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) plans to open up .xxx domains for pornographic websites in an effort to get them to self-segregate to the appropriate dark corners of Internet.

Porn websites with sexually explicit material will claim their own top level domain (TLD) on the Internet as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) begins to review a plan to change the suffix designation .xxx. The primary reason the domain designation is to help people filter out adult oriented content.

On Friday, ICANN announced the approval of two new Top-Level Domain designations: .jobs and .travel. This approval was done during the ICANN International conference, which is held in Argentina.

An ICANN arbitration panel has rejected Google’s claim that froogles.com was “confusingly similar” in name to Google.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has begun implementing the update for Internet’s method of identifying computers that are connected to it. The new Internet Protocol, called IPv6, will increase the amount of numbers available, by an incredible margin, that are used to in the identification process.

Most countries have top-level domain names which end with their countries’ designated suffix, such as .ca(Canada), .uk(United Kingdom), etc. Finally, after many years of prodding, the U.S. government will allow individuals to register their own .us domain name. On Monday March 4th, 2002, the U.S. government will allow companies to register their trademark name with a .us suffix. After April 9th, anyone can register their name. The 35 registrars who have signed-up to sell the .us TLDs can do so to anyone who has a business in the United States or does business here. The U.S. Commerce Department selected the Washington D.C. company, NeuStar, to operate the name last year. NeuStar also works with the Australian company NeuLevel to operate the .biz TLD. Neustar will charge the 35 registrars US $35 per name and the registrars will charge us somewhere between $15-$30. Although 100,000 names have already been issued, they are mostly owned by state and local government agencies. When .us was first released, it wasn’t very popular because the name looked like software.lex.ky.us. However, now Neustar says that they will allow people to register their names which look like software.us. What a change! Lastly, Neustar promises that they can register and have your domain name operational in less than 15 minutes.