ICANN has announced that it will be extending the deadline for companies to apply for custom web address suffixes after a software problem was discovered with its top-level domain application system.

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NEW YORK - Amazon.com wants ".joy," Google wants ".love" and L'Oreal wants ".beauty." Big brands are behind hundreds of proposals for new Internet addresses, including scores of bids for generic terms ...

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NEW YORK | If Google has its way, you won't need to type "Google.com" any more to do your searches. You can simply access the search engine at ".Google." Google's bid for ".Google" as an Internet ...

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, will kick off a marketing campaign Monday to rebrand .la as the Web suffix for Los Angeles. The Scottsdale, Ariz., company believes geographical-based ...

WASHINGTON — Coming soon to the Internet: website addresses that end in “.bank,” “.Vegas” and “.Canon.” The organization that oversees the Internet-address system is preparing to open the floodgates ...

The singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft Corp. and Harvard University are among those buying up .porn and .adult Web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names become available this summer.

A new Web-site suffix could make it easier for people to find corporate job openings. The nonprofit group that oversees Internet addresses -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, ...