On Thursday, the domains used by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, and IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, were hijacked to redirect users to a protest message.
The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned.
The organisation behind .pro has received approval to make the top-level domain available to users "anywhere in the world".
Australia's second level domain name system for government may have an air of legitimacy, but bureaucratic bungling is confusing Web administration between levels of government, according to one German researcher.
Inexpensive domain names are fuelling the growth of cybersquatting in the region
ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf fires back at critics who say his organisation impedes innovation on the Internet.
The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority, making organisations literally "masters of their own domain".
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