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Three months after unveiling 20 top-level domains outside the official Internet naming system, start-up New.net today released another 10 top-level domains designed to add more naming choices for ...

One morning in 1999, while I sat at the office computer where I built corporate websites, a story popped up on Yahoo. An internet domain name, Business.com, had just sold for $7.5 million—a shocking ...

For David Hernand, co-opting some of the most popular content sites on the Internet seemed like a good way to make his point. Hernand, chief executive of Idealab-incubated startup New.net, is ...

PayPal is among the as-yet unnamed organizations invited to join a new working group that ultimately will build the framework for the proposed .secure top-level Internet domain that also can be used ...

Internet users may soon be required to pay an additional annual fee for each domain name they own, thanks to a virtually unnoticed requirement that will begin to take effect next year. The Internet ...