ICANN Approves Dot-KitchenSink Internet Address Policy (TechNewsWorld.com)
The universe of Internet domains will soon experience a Big Bang, thanks to Thursday’s vote by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approving a new system for handing out Web addresses. Corporations and other public and private entities will no longer be limited to Web extensions like .com, .net or .org.
Amazon Plays Dumb in Internet Sales Tax Debate (New York Times)
UPDATE: See comments from Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix, at the end. The crazy web of rules relating to the sales tax on Internet purchases and the equally crazy debate about what the right policy should be is about to get even crazier.
Single mom selling Fla. home and heart on Internet (The Charlotte Observer)
She’s tried night clubs and online dating sites, but now a 42-year-old single mother is looking for love where everyone else’s heart is breaking - the real estate market. After a year of trying to sell her four-bedroom home and eight years of singledom, Deven Trabosh is offering her South Florida home and a shot at marrying her on the Internet. "I figured let’s combine the ad because I’m looking …
Internet org paves way for hundreds of new domains (AP via Yahoo! News)
The Internet’s key oversight agency relaxed rules Thursday to permit the introduction of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of new Internet domain names to join ".com," making the first sweeping changes in the network’s 25-year-old address system.
LA Internet suicide case may be put off (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
A Missouri woman charged in connection with an Internet hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide may have her Los Angeles trial postponed.
Hackers Hijack Critical Internet Organizations (New York Times)
Turkish hackers on Thursday defaced the official sites of the international organizations that oversee the Internet?s critical routing infrastructure and regulate domain names.
Allowing new domain names will change look of Internet (Regina Leader-Post)
Internet regulators voted to relax rules on domain names like .com or .edu, which could pave the way for companies or individuals to create an array of new addresses for the Web.
Internet Regulator Eases Domain-Name Limits (NPR)
The group that oversees the Internet has voted to ease the limits on the suffixes on Web addresses, like .com and .org. It won’t be free, but the move opens the door to countless new addresses, including ones with Chinese or Arabic characters.