ICANN

The way the internet is run internationally is coming up for review and the US is keen to keep control on US soil.

ICANN has revealed the companies and people behind the near-2000 proposed new domain names.

ICANN is set to reveal what domains have been proposed to go alongside dot com and the like.

ICANN has been forced to extend the deadline for internet domains to protect their domain names.

Internet domain names are set for a shake-up, as ICANN has voted to allow new suffixes to append web addresses from 2012.

The internet overlords at ICANN have seen fit to tidy all the porn away into one handy, easy to access corner of the web with the .XXX domain which has finally gone live.

DNSSEC, the new web security system which hopes to make the internet harder for hackers to attack, has been officially given the go ahead in the US – ushering in a new era of the internet.

There are now more than 177 million registered internet domains – with a whopping 28 million arriving in 2008 alone.