SEX Sells! - PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Nov. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT and .SEX top-level domains (TLDs), announces the launch of its general availability period for .SEX. Domain names in all of ICM Registry's extensions are now available for public purchase. Interested parties can buy available names through registrars listed at: http://icmregistry.com/registrars/. "With over 20,000 names registered in our new adult TLDs this year and over 4,000 ... read more ...

China, Working with a US Company, Aims to Censor Online Content - Internet censorship around the world is the goal of a new collaboration between China and XYZ.com, which would ban websites whose names contain certain words from new top-level domains. China is already famous for massive Internet surveillance and censorship inside its borders. Now, through a partnership with American company XYZ.com, Chinese authorities are also aiming to censor online content around the world in an unprecedented suppression of Internet privacy and freedom. It's no secret ... read more ...

Google Engineering Deep Dive - Posted in Arts Features, Arts News By Naomi Caldwell October 21, 2015 Googley: a term used to describe a person characterized by passionate curiosity, fearless inquiry, and a fiendish work ethic. In other words, the typical Swat student. On September 28, the Monday before fall break, Phil Koonce ’12 and Nick Felt ’13 returned to Swarthmore to talk about their work as Google employees as part of a student recruitment for jobs ... read more ...

Internet mushrooms toward 300 million domains and boosts its language diversity - There are now almost 300 million domain names in the world, but just 2 percent are internationalized domain names (IDNs) with non-Roman characters such as Arabic script or the Chinese writing system. For example, Japanese people on the Internet currently access the world’s most popular search engine at google.co.jp. But in the future, Google (based in Mountain View, California) could pivot to use of the domain suffix .グーグル, which it already owns and is pronounced “Guguru” ... read more ...

The Web’s 10 most shady neighborhoods - Just like any city or town, the Web has parts -- neighborhoods if you will -- where dubious activities frequently take place: spam, scams, the distribution of potentially unwanted software (PUS), malware, botnets, phishing and other suspicious activity.Enterprise security specialist Blue Coat Systems regularly analyzes hundreds of millions of Web requests from more than 15,000 businesses and 75 million users to track "shady activity" on the Web. In September, it released a list of the 10 top-level ... read more ...

My Trefis - We'd like to welcome Trefis to the domain community. And since it appears they're going to write reports, we're offering to help get them up to speed on new TLDs. For example: - Barclays, Marriott, Apple, Google and BMW have all transitioned from .com to new TLDs.- Registrations in new TLDs recently topped 8 million.- The number of new TLDs on the market has increased from 400 to 768.Hopefully once Trefis gets up to speed we'll see some interesting reports. [ less... ] ... read more ...

Google Expands Its Domain Registration Service With Addition of Nearly 90 New … - web addresses that are highly creative to the left of the dot, and highly specific to the right of the dot." Google VP and CIO Ben ... read more ...

ICM Registry Retains KCSA Strategic Communications as Public Relations Counsel – SYS - <![CDATA[ ]]>PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Oct. 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX, .PORN, .ADULT, and .SEX top-level domains (TLDs), announces KCSA Strategic Communications, a leading New York-based communications firm, will lead the Company's public relations program. KCSA will deploy a global outreach campaign to increase awareness of ICM Registry's latest domain -- .SEX. Following the ... read more ...

Google Beefs Up Domain Registrar Service With 90 New Top-Level Domains And … - Google introduced major changes to its domain name registration service, adding business-centric features that Google hopes will attract customers away from domain giants such as Namecheap and GoDaddy. (Photo : Mike Windle | Getty Images) Google has made a major revamp to Google Domains, its domain name registration service launched in beta in the United States in 2014. The upgraded service now includes a trio of improvements that Google hopes will help it match up to the competition. Google ... read more ...

The Social Responsibility Imperative – TLDs Leading the Charge - Last month at CIRA's annual general meeting, I had the pleasure of meeting Tracy Axelsson, the executive director of the Vancouver Community Network. Her organization is working to connect street-involved citizens in downtown Vancouver with critical life-saving information via SMS messages. Chatting about her program was a vivid reminder for me of what many technology companies around the world have recognized, that the benefits of our wares can have a profound impact on our economies, culture ... read more ...

Internet Grows to 296 million domain names in Q2 2015 - Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 per cent, year over year. Two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, according to VeriSign’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of two million domain ... read more ...

Internet grows to 296 million domain names in 2Q15 - VeriSign, Inc., the domain names and Internet security provider, announced two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief.Representational image. Agencies The increase of two million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015. Worldwide ... read more ...

Internet Doomsday scenario: How the web could suddenly fall apart - Analysis Engineers have recommended a small but important change to the internet's underlying structure in order to avoid a possible doomsday scenario. A report [PDF] from the Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) argues that a key parameter in the internet's address books – namely, how long the information should be stored – needs to be increased in order to avoid a possible shutdown of parts of the global network. ... read more ...

Internet grows to 296 million domain names in the Q2 2015 - VeriSign has announced two million domain names were added to the Internet in the second quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of June 30, 2015, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief. The increase of two million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015. Worldwide registrations have grown by 16.4 million, or 5.9 percent, year ... read more ...

Internet grows to 296 mln domain names in Q2 – VeriSign - A total of two million domain names were added to the internet in the second quarter of the year, bringing the total number of registered domain names to 296 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of 30 June, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign. The increase equates to a growth rate of 0.8 percent over the first quarter of 2015, significantly below previously quarterly growth rates of 1.9 percent, 1.3 percent and 1.6 percent. Worldwide ... read more ...