Over the past year, ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organization that controls the use of domain names on the web, has been in the process of… Read more »

Amazon will not be given access to the top-level domain name .amazon, it was announced last week. As reported by Eric Pfanner for the New York Times Bit Blog, the… Read more »

As we reported yesterday, publishers and other organizations like Bowker have continued to strike back against Amazon’s efforts to claim exclusive use of new top-level domains being offered by ICANN.… Read more »

Publishers Weekly reported on its website last week that American publishers are up in arms over Amazon’s intention to take over the .book domain for its exclusive use. This comes in… Read more »

Earlier this year, MobyLives reported that ICANN, the body overseeing the expansion of domain names, was fielding hundreds of submissions from tech giants Google and Amazon, and many others. Now… Read more »

This spring, ICANN, the body that determines which domain names can be used on the Internet and which are out of bounds—last year they finally agreed to the domain name… Read more »