domain-name

A company or government or individual that wants a domain-name suffix must pay Icann $185,000 just to apply.

Web Addresses Enter New.Era Sam Holmes 2011

The domain-name system, or DNS, is an integral part of the Internet, ensuring traffic goes where it's supposed to when users type in a Web address like www.wsj.com or www.whitehouse.gov.

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The fee could keep smaller businesses from registering a unique extension, even as the change opens up opportunities to build Web addresses on industry keywords like dot-pets, said Warren Adelman , president of domain-name registration firm GoDaddy.com.

Web Addresses Enter New.Era Sam Holmes 2011

For companies, even those that are happy with dot-com and aren't interested in adopting a new domain-name suffix will have to monitor the process to head off any potential trademark or brand-name infringement from other applicants, Internet experts said.

Web Addresses Enter New.Era Sam Holmes 2011

That comes on top of the costs of running the domain-name suffix, likely outsourced to a company already in the business, which can run anywhere from $15,000 to millions of dollars, depending on the number of users, according to Ms. Cooper of MarkMonitor.

Web Addresses Enter New.Era Sam Holmes 2011

Once an appealing domain-name suffix is secured, selling the secondary names—meaning the words to the left of the dot—could be a profitable business.

Web Addresses Enter New.Era Sam Holmes 2011

The second-least reliable rumors cite patent filings and domain-name registrations as evidence.

How to decipher tech rumors, the nerd equivalent of celebrity gossip 2011

Web.com Group Inc., a provider of online marketing and website services to small and medium-sized business, has agreed to acquire Network Solutions, one of the largest Internet domain-name registrars, for about $560 million in cash and stock.

Network Solutions Fetches $560 Million Anupreeta Das 2011

Colloquially there's Oz (and an Australian is an Aussie, and the dialect is Strine short for "'stra (l) ian" - this one is mildly mocking, like the NZ dialect is Newzild), or in geeky circles you can use the domain-name style AU.

Land Of My Bones. karenhealey 2010

But I'm not in the business of buying and selling domain-name extensions.

Web Addresses Enter New.Era Sam Holmes 2011