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ICANN selling custom top-level domains for $185,000

ICANN selling custom top-level domains for $185,000
  • Posted January 12, 2012, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • In the wake of .xxx domains becoming reality, ICANN, the entity which governs Internet domain names, has begun accepting applicants today for custom top-level domains. Instead of being restricted to .com, .net, .info and the like, companies now have the…

.xxx domains go live, each site scanned daily by McAfee

.xxx domains go live, each site scanned daily by McAfee
  • Posted December 6, 2011, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
  • After much ado between the adult entertainment industry, ICM Registry and Internet domain governing body ICANN, .xxx domains finally started going live this Tuesday. Even early this morning, the number of live .xxx addresses had hit six digits and that…

ICANN votes in favor of allowing custom top-level domains

ICANN votes in favor of allowing custom top-level domains
  • Posted June 21, 2011, 11:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • Hot on the heels of their controversial approval of .xxx top-level domains back in March, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has now voted to allow the creation of new generic website domain suffixes so that companies…

ICANN board approves .xxx TLD for pornography

  • Posted March 19, 2011, 1:10 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in The Web, Industry News
  • At an annual meeting held in San Francisco, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors has approved the .xxx sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) with the ICM Registry. The .xxx TLD is meant for pornographic websites,…

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